
- 306 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Surviving Dictatorship
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About this Book
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- One Shantytown Women and Dictatorship
- Two Living with Repression
- Three Unemployment and Exacerbated Poverty
- Four Surviving Poverty in the Shantytowns
- Five Resistance: Self-Protection and Community Affirmation
- Six Mounting an Offensive
- Seven Ties Between Groups
- Eight Surviving Dictatorship
- Appendix
- Notes
- Photography Credits
- Bibliography
- Index