"This will be an important book, and a powerful exemplar for the
growing numbers of anthropologists who seek to place such things as
democracy, citizenship, and neoliberalism under an ethnographic
lens."--James Ferguson, author of "Expectations of Modernity: Myths
and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambin Copperbelt
"In joining activism and fine ethnography, Paley enables us to
appreciate the profound complexity of the links between civil
society and public institutions. Chakrabarty's assessment of "the
undemocratic foundations of 'democracy'" becomes a fine analytic
tool as it is refracted in the words of the women of Poblacion La
Bandera."--Charles Briggs, author of "Learning How to Ask
"Paley has produced an insightful and fascinating exploration of
the shifting meanings of democracy for the Chilean state and for
shantytown activists across the Pinochet dictatorship and through
the contradictory democratic politics of the 1990s. The marketing
of democracy is a highly relevant issue for societies and states
throughout the world."--Kay Warren, author of "Indigenous Movements
and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala
"An important challenge to Polyanna conventional wisdoms about
democratic transitions and neo-liberal miracles in Chile and its
neighbors."--Peter Winn, author of "Weavers of Revolution
"This is anthropology as the observation of and involvement in,
the new, participatory politics of the previously excluded."--Sally
Falk Moore, author of "Law as Process
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