Lost in the Long Transition

Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile
Herausgeber: Alexander, William L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Presenting case studies by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and environmental specialists,Lost in the Long Transition critically examines the impact of neoliberal economic and social policies at the local level in post-dictatorship Chile. Topics include privatization of water rights, tuberculosis and public health crises, the role of labor unions, industrial salmon farming, natural resource conservation, the political ecology of copper, struggles for affordable housing, homelessness and citizenship rights, and gender identity issues in the experiences of returned exiles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780739118658
• ISBN-10: 073911865X
• Artikelnr.: 26846579

Autorenporträt

Edited by William L. Alexander - Contributions by Jessica Budds; Joan E. Paluzzi; Angela Vergara; Anton Daughters; Emily Wakild; Margot Olavarría; Guadalupe Salazar and Deborah R. Altamirano

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: Enduring Contradictions of the Neoliberal State in
Chile Part 2 Part I. Private Interests and the Public Good Chapter 3
Chapter 2. The 1981 Water Code: The Impacts of Private Tradable Water
Rights on Peasant and Indigenous Communities in Northern Chile Chapter 4
Chapter 3. Intersections or Fault Lines? Chile's Free National Tuberculosis
Treatment Program Within a Privatizing Health System Chapter 5 Chapter 4.
Confronting Global Corporations: The Strike in Minera Escondida and
Workers' Struggles in Contemporary Chile Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Globalization
Hits El Trauco: The Archipelago of Chiloé in the Era of Neoliberalism
Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Purchasing Patagonia: The Contradictions of
Conservation in Free Market Chile Part 8 Part II. In Place, At Issue:
Identity, Community, Consciousness Chapter 9 Chapter 7. Cultural History
"Written in the Margins": Political Ecology of Copper and Community in the
"Little North" Chapter 10 Chapter 8. Builders of the City: Pobladores and
the Territorialization of Class Identity in Chile Chapter 11 Chapter 9. The
Politics of Street Children in Chile Chapter 12 Chapter 10. Repatriating
Women: Navigating the Way "Home" in Neoliberal Chile