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Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
Clara Han
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Description for Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
Paperback. Introduces lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago in Chile. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, this book explores how the moral and political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and mental health policies and reparations for human rights violations are refracted through relational modes and their boundaries. Num Pages: 298 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; JHM; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor accrued through inequalities generated by economic liberalization, while society owed a "moral debt" to the victims of human rights violations. "Life in Debt" invites us into lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, Clara Han ... Read more
Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor accrued through inequalities generated by economic liberalization, while society owed a "moral debt" to the victims of human rights violations. "Life in Debt" invites us into lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, Clara Han ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520272101
SKU
V9780520272101
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About Clara Han
Clara Han is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
Reviews for Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
"Thought-provoking, engaging, insightful, thoroughly researched and theoretically nuanced."
Deborah R. Altamirano Times Higher Education "Brimming with insights and textures... Han brilliantly, often quite beautifully, fleshes out the intersections between the existential and the economic."
Larisa Jasarevic Somatosphere
Deborah R. Altamirano Times Higher Education "Brimming with insights and textures... Han brilliantly, often quite beautifully, fleshes out the intersections between the existential and the economic."
Larisa Jasarevic Somatosphere