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For a Proper Home - Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010 (Paperback)
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For a Proper Home - Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010 (Paperback)
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist
project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans
illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago.
Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes
with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation
came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and
social struggle that continues to this day.
In analyzing the causes and consequences of this struggle, Murphy
reveals a crucial connection between homeownership and
understandings of proper behavior and governance. This link between
property and propriety has been at the root of a powerful,
contested urban politics central to both social activism and urban
development projects. Through projects of reform, revolution, and
reaction, a right to housing and homeownership has been a
significant symbol of governmental benevolence and poverty
reduction. Under Pinochet's neoliberalism, subsidized housing and
slum eradication programs displaced many squatters, while awarding
them homes of their own. This process, in addition to ongoing forms
of activism, has permitted the vast majority of squatters to live
in homes with property titles, a momentous change of the past
half-century.
This triumph is tempered by the fact that today the urban poor
struggle with high levels of unemployment and underemployment,
significant debt, and a profoundly segregated and hostile urban
landscape. They also find it more difficult to mobilize than in the
past, and as homeowners they can no longer rally around the cause
of housing rights.
Citing cultural theorists from Marx to Foucault, Murphy directly
links the importance of home ownership and property rights among
Santiago's urban poor to definitions of Chilean citizenship and
propriety. He explores how the deeply embedded liberal belief
system of individual property ownership has shaped political,
social, and physical landscapes in the city. His approach sheds
light on the role that social movements and the gendered contours
of home life have played in the making of citizenship. It also
illuminates processes through which squatters have received legally
sanctioned homes of their own, a phenomenon of critical importance
in cities throughout much of Latin America and the Global South.
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