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Lost in the Long Transition - Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile (Paperback)
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Lost in the Long Transition - Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile (Paperback)
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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 social
consequences for all. The authors, who come from the disciplines of
cultural anthropology, history, political science, and geography,
focus their research perspectives on issues including privatization
of water rights in arid lands, tuberculosis and the public health
crisis, labor strikes and the changing role of unions, the
environmental and cultural impacts of export development
initiatives on small-scale fishing communities, natural resource
conservation in the private sector, the political ecology of
copper, the fight for affordable housing, homelessness and
citizenship rights under the judicial system, and the gender
experiences of returned exiles. In the years leading up to the
global financial meltdown of 2008, many Latin American governments,
responding to inequities at home and attempting to pull themselves
out of debt dependency, moved away from the Chilean model. This
book examines the social costs of that model and the growing
resistance to neoliberalism in Chile, providing ethnographic
details of the struggles of those excluded from its benefits. This
research offers a look at the lives of those whose stories may have
otherwise been Lost in the Long Transition.
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