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Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars,
Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral
history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of
poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society:
Pinochet's Chile. It focuses on shantytown women, examining how
they join groups to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and
targeted repression, and how this leads them into very varied forms
of resistance aimed at self-protection, community-building, and
mounting an offensive. Drawing on a visual database of shantytown
photographs, art, posters, flyers, and bulletins, as well as on
interviews, photo elicitation, and archival research, the book is
an example of how multiple methods might be successfully employed
to examine dictatorship from the perspective of some of the least
powerful members of society. It is ideal for courses in social
inequalities, poverty, race/class/gender, political sociology,
global studies, urban studies, women's studies, human rights, oral
history, and qualitative methods.
Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as
scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and
oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived
experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an
authoritarian society: Pinochet s Chile.
It focuses on shantytown women, examining how they join groups
to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and targeted repression,
and how this leads them into very varied forms of resistance aimed
at self-protection, community-building, and mounting an offensive.
Drawing on a visual database of shantytown photographs, art,
posters, flyers, and bulletins, as well as on interviews, photo
elicitation, and archival research, the book is an example of how
multiple methods might be successfully employed to examine
dictatorship from the perspective of some of the least powerful
members of society. It is ideal for courses in social inequalities,
poverty, race/class/gender, political sociology, global studies,
urban studies, women s studies, human rights, oral history, and
qualitative methods.
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A Blessing (Paperback)
Bonita C Stewart, Jacqueline Adams
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R485
Discovery Miles 4 850
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive
governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile,
some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished
women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the
government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling
arpilleras, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the
unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work
to make ends meet, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out
of Chile by human rights organizations, the arpilleras raised
international awareness of the Pinochet regime’s abuses while
providing income for the arpillera makers and creating a network of
solidarity between the people of Chile and sympathizers throughout
the world. Using the Chilean arpilleras as a case study, this book
explores how dissident art can be produced under dictatorship, when
freedom of expression is absent and repression rife, and the
consequences of its production for the resistance and for the
artists. Taking a sociological approach based on interviews,
participant observation, archival research, and analysis of a
visual database, Jacqueline Adams examines the emergence of the
arpilleras and then traces their journey from the workshops and
homes in which they were made, to the human rights organizations
that exported them, and on to sellers and buyers abroad, as well as
in Chile. She then presents the perspectives of the arpillera
makers and human rights organization staff, who discuss how the
arpilleras strengthened the resistance and empowered the women who
made them.
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