Lost in the Long Transition Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile

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

• ISBN13: 9780739118658
• ISBN10: 073911865X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-24
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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 had social consequences for all.

Author Biography

William L. Alexander is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author of Resiliency in Hostile Environments: A Comunidad Agricola in Chile's Norte Chico.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Enduring Contradictions of the Neoliberal State in Chile	p. 1
Private Interests and the Public Good
The 1981 Water Code: The Impacts of Private Tradable Water Rights on Peasant and Indigenous Communities in Northern Chile	p. 41
Intersections or Fault Lines? Chile's Free National Tuberculosis Treatment Program Within a Privatizing Health System	p. 63
Confronting Global Corporations: The Strike in Minera Escondida and Workers' Struggles in Contemporary Chile	p. 83
Globalization Hits El Traitco: The Archipelago of Chiloe in the Era of Neoliberalism	p. 97
Purchasing Patagonia; The Contradictions of Conservation in Free Market Chile	p. 115
In Place, At Issue: Identity, Community, Consciousness
Cultural History "Written in the Margins": Political Ecology of Copper and Community in the "Little North"	p. 131
Builders of the City: Pobladores and the Territorialization of Class Identity in Chile	p. 153
The Politics of Street Children in Chile	p. 169
Repatriating Women: Navigating the Way "Home" in Neoliberal Chile	p. 185
Index	p. 199
About the Authors	p. 207
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