Life in Debt Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile

Name: Life in Debt Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
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ISBN: 9780520272101

ISBN-10: 0520272102

ISBN-13: 9780520272101

Edition: 2012

Authors: Clara Han

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Description:

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 Debtinvites us into lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, Clara Han explores how the moral and political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Clara Hanis Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Symptoms of Another Life



Social Debt, Silent Gift



Torture, Love, and the Everyday



Neoliberal Depression



Community Experiments



Life and Death, Care and Neglect


Conclusion: Relations and Time


Notes


References


Index