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Lost in the Long Transition
Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile
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2009
Summary
In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for social services and public resources to the private sector, reducing restrictions on foreign investment, and promoting free trade and export production, neoliberalism began during the Pinochet dictatorship and was adopted across Latin America in the 1980s. With the return of civilian government, the pursuit of justice and equity worked alongside a pact of compromise and an economic model that brought prosperity for some, entrenched poverty for others, and social consequences for all. The authors, who come from the disciplines of cultural anthropology, history, political science, and geography, focus their research perspectives on issues including privatization of water rights in arid lands, tuberculosis and the public health crisis, labor strikes and the changing role of unions, the environmental and cultural impacts of export development initiatives on small-scale fishing communities, natural resource conservation in the private sector, the political ecology of copper, the fight for affordable housing, homelessness and citizenship rights under the judicial system, and the gender experiences of returned exiles. In the years leading up to the global financial meltdown of 2008, many Latin American governments, responding to inequities at home and attempting to pull themselves out of debt dependency, moved away from the Chilean model. This book examines the social costs of that model and the growing resistance to neoliberalism in Chile, providing ethnographic details of the struggles of those excluded from its benefits. This research offers a look at the lives of those whose stories may have otherwise been Lost in the Long Transition.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1864-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4151-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
209
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface No access
1 Introduction: Enduring Contradictions of the Neoliberal State in Chile William L. Alexander No access Pages 1 - 38
2 The 1981 Water Code: The Impacts of Private Tradable Water Rights on Peasant and Indigenous Communities in Northern Chile Jessica Budds No access
3 Intersections or Fault Lines? Chile's Free National Tuberculosis Treatment Program Within a Privatizing Health System Joan E. Paluzzi No access
4 Confronting Global Corporations: The Strike in Minera Escondidaand Workers' Struggles in Contemporary Chile Angela Vergara No access
5 Globalization Hits El Trauco: The Archipelago of Chiloé in the Era of Neoliberalism Anton Daughters No access
6 Purchasing Patagonia: The Contradictions of Conservation in Free Market Chile Emily Wakild No access
7 Cultural History "Written in the Margins": Political Ecology of Copper and Community in the "Little North" William L. Alexander No access
8 Builders of the City: Pobladores and the Territorialization of ClassIdentity in Chile Margot Olavarría No access
9 The Politics of Street Children in Chile Guadalupe Salazar No access
10 Repatriating Women: Navigating the Way "Home" in Neoliberal Chile Deborah R. Altamirano No access
