My dissertation “Affective Politics of Belonging” examines how claims to land and houses are articulated in affective idioms that, in conjunction with state plans in Bolivarian Venezuela, seek to transcend, yet are encapsulated within, market and rights-based forms of inclusion. By focusing on gender, property and citizenship in “Pioneer Camps” or “New Socialist Communities” this project is about contemporary Venezuelan politics but also speaks to broader debates about democratic citizenship, urban land politics and gender justice in Latin America. With the help of CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship I will be conducting further archival research in libraries and public institutions in Caracas to complement my ethnographic work (conducted between 2014 and 2016) and advance to the final stages of writing my dissertation.