Antulio Rosales
@antuliorosales.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University. I work on political economy of energy and development, politics of cryptocurrency in Latin America, Venezuelan politics.
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Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History.
It is now open access!
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It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
We are glad to finally see this piece out, after a long wait. Thanks to excellent reviewers and especially many researchers, non-governmental organizations and international agencies that have helped gather information to not keep the Venezuelan crisis forgotten.
#OpenAccess #Venezuela
#OpenAccess #Venezuela
📣Publication Alert! #OpenAccess
"Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️
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"Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️
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Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)
Abstract. This article brings together the literatures of predation and depletion via social reproduction (DSR) to provide an explanation of the Venezuelan
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December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We are glad to finally see this piece out, after a long wait. Thanks to excellent reviewers and especially many researchers, non-governmental organizations and international agencies that have helped gather information to not keep the Venezuelan crisis forgotten.
#OpenAccess #Venezuela
#OpenAccess #Venezuela
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📣Publication Alert! #OpenAccess
"Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️
academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...
"Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️
academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...
Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)
Abstract. This article brings together the literatures of predation and depletion via social reproduction (DSR) to provide an explanation of the Venezuelan
academic.oup.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
📣Publication Alert! #OpenAccess
"Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️
academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...
"Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️
academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...
@dsmilde explains that operation southern spear may not only unleash a costly and unpredictable conflict, but it could further undermine US democracy.
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How Operation Southern Spear Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy
It’s one more way the Trump administration is eroding democratic norms.
thedispatch.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@dsmilde explains that operation southern spear may not only unleash a costly and unpredictable conflict, but it could further undermine US democracy.
thedispatch.com/article/vene...
thedispatch.com/article/vene...
Today @javiercorrales.bsky.social explains that one thing is to overthrow a dictator and a very different one is to establish a democracy.
And why Trump is unlikely to achieve the second in Venezuela.
time.com/7337974/trum...
And why Trump is unlikely to achieve the second in Venezuela.
time.com/7337974/trum...
Why Trump Won’t Establish Democracy in Venezuela
Trump is not ready to "undertake the long, expensive, institution-building project that democratization requires."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Today @javiercorrales.bsky.social explains that one thing is to overthrow a dictator and a very different one is to establish a democracy.
And why Trump is unlikely to achieve the second in Venezuela.
time.com/7337974/trum...
And why Trump is unlikely to achieve the second in Venezuela.
time.com/7337974/trum...
After a long time in the works, @benedictebull.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the new edited collection edited by Joy Gordon on the effects of economic sanctions worldwide now out with @universitypress.cambridge.org.
Check it out.
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Check it out.
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Hurting Your Own Allies (Chapter 16) - Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad
Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad - December 2025
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December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
After a long time in the works, @benedictebull.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the new edited collection edited by Joy Gordon on the effects of economic sanctions worldwide now out with @universitypress.cambridge.org.
Check it out.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
Check it out.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
Full article: Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn Mauricio Collao Quevedo
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PFJNY...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PFJNY...
Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn
Critical social and environmental thought is undergoing a ‘geological turn’ whereby the science of Geology and the notions of the ‘geos’ and ‘the geologic’ are repeatedly conjured to think through ...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Full article: Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn Mauricio Collao Quevedo
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PFJNY...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PFJNY...
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Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
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"Drake’s works stand out for a stunning act of defiance: ...it was illegal at the time for enslaved people to learn how to read or write. On one jar, Drake reflected...: 'I wonder where is all my relation / Friendship to all—and every nation.'"
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An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants
Many of David Drake's large vessels featured his signature and inscriptions, even though he created them during a time when literacy among enslaved laborers was illegal
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November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Drake’s works stand out for a stunning act of defiance: ...it was illegal at the time for enslaved people to learn how to read or write. On one jar, Drake reflected...: 'I wonder where is all my relation / Friendship to all—and every nation.'"
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
"One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver."
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Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver."
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
"Maduro is a heinous dictator, and there is a need for international engagement. But what is to be done should be developed on the basis of real facts and analysis, not the tall tales of exiled and displaced leaders, which have led to disastrous miscalculations in the past" by @dsmilde.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Maduro is a heinous dictator, and there is a need for international engagement. But what is to be done should be developed on the basis of real facts and analysis, not the tall tales of exiled and displaced leaders, which have led to disastrous miscalculations in the past" by @dsmilde.bsky.social
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Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our November special issue by @antuliorosales.bsky.social, on the links between cryptocurrency, corruption, and authoritarianism, from the United States to El Salvador and Venezuela.
A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism
Cryptocurrencies have become a key component of global democratic backsliding. The imbrication of cryptocurrency and current authoritarianisms has been largely understated and misunderstood as a quirk...
online.ucpress.edu
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our November special issue by @antuliorosales.bsky.social, on the links between cryptocurrency, corruption, and authoritarianism, from the United States to El Salvador and Venezuela.
Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History.
It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History.
It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
Reposted by Antulio Rosales
Our November special issue on Anti-Governance is out! Featuring @erik-jones.bsky.social on the abandonment of institutions, @cettamainwaring.bsky.social, Andonea Dickson & Thom Tyerman on hardline migration control, Gideon Lasco on medical populism…
Volume 124 Issue 865 | Current History | University of California Press
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October 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Our November special issue on Anti-Governance is out! Featuring @erik-jones.bsky.social on the abandonment of institutions, @cettamainwaring.bsky.social, Andonea Dickson & Thom Tyerman on hardline migration control, Gideon Lasco on medical populism…
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Also in our new special issue: @erolsaglam.bsky.social on conspiracism going mainstream, @antuliorosales.bsky.social on cryptocurrency and corruption, Holly Case on authoritarian fact-making, and @duncanbell.bsky.social on tech tycoons’ posthumanism.
Volume 124 Issue 865 | Current History | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
October 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Also in our new special issue: @erolsaglam.bsky.social on conspiracism going mainstream, @antuliorosales.bsky.social on cryptocurrency and corruption, Holly Case on authoritarian fact-making, and @duncanbell.bsky.social on tech tycoons’ posthumanism.
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@antuliorosales.bsky.social y yo estamos muy contentes por este reconocimiento y con ánimos de difundir el artículo en cuanto sea publicado.
Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela
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Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela
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🚨La SVS de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
@antuliorosales.bsky.social y yo estamos muy contentes por este reconocimiento y con ánimos de difundir el artículo en cuanto sea publicado.
Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela
🇻🇪♥️
Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela
🇻🇪♥️
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🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
Full article: FinTech as a state-orchestrated strategy: redefining financialization of households in Argentina www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
FinTech as a state-orchestrated strategy: redefining financialization of households in Argentina
This article examines how longstanding asymmetries in Argentina’s financial system have shaped the adoption and expansion of financial technologies (FinTech). Rather than signaling a rupture from p...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Full article: FinTech as a state-orchestrated strategy: redefining financialization of households in Argentina www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🎥Pulling back the curtain✨Meet the section heads who are crafting an unforgettable #CPSA_ACSP26 experience-They're ❤️beat of the conference!
👉🏽 shorturl.at/AgUow
@russellawilliams.bsky.social @jbroschek.bsky.social @antuliorosales.bsky.social @jonathanrose.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com
👉🏽 shorturl.at/AgUow
@russellawilliams.bsky.social @jbroschek.bsky.social @antuliorosales.bsky.social @jonathanrose.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🎥Pulling back the curtain✨Meet the section heads who are crafting an unforgettable #CPSA_ACSP26 experience-They're ❤️beat of the conference!
👉🏽 shorturl.at/AgUow
@russellawilliams.bsky.social @jbroschek.bsky.social @antuliorosales.bsky.social @jonathanrose.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com
👉🏽 shorturl.at/AgUow
@russellawilliams.bsky.social @jbroschek.bsky.social @antuliorosales.bsky.social @jonathanrose.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com
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Here some of the initial analyses about the María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize award.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Here some of the initial analyses about the María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize award.
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Q&A: Facts and Fictions Regarding Venezuelan Crime and Drug Trafficking
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Q&A: Facts and Fictions Regarding Venezuelan Crime and Drug Trafficking
Yesterday fact-checking website Politifact published a piece on U.S.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Q&A: Facts and Fictions Regarding Venezuelan Crime and Drug Trafficking
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open.substack.com/pub/davidsmi...
Venezuela and the United States by @dsmilde.bsky.social davidsmilde.substack.com?r=2cdt1t&utm...
Venezuela and the United States | David Smilde | Substack
Analysis of Venezuela, the United States, U.S. Venezuela policy, and Venezuela's policy towards the United States. Click to read Venezuela and the United States, by David Smilde, a Substack publicatio...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Venezuela and the United States by @dsmilde.bsky.social davidsmilde.substack.com?r=2cdt1t&utm...