Bread, justice, and liberty : grassroots activism and human rights in Pinochet's Chile / Alison J. Bruey.

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Bruey, Alison J [Author]

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online resource

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9780299316136

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F3100 .B743 2018

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Contents:

1. La Legua, Villa Francia, and the Movimiento de Pobladores -- 2. The Coup and the Past That Is Present -- 3. The Economy of Terror, 1973-1978 -- 4. Solidarity and Resistance, 1973-1978 -- 5. Miracles, Mirages, and Mobilization, 1978-1982 -- 6. National Protest and Possibility, 1983-1990 -- Epilogue: And the Joy?

Subject: In Santiago's urban shantytowns, a searing history of poverty and Chilean state violence have prompted grassroots resistance movements among the poor and working class from the 1940s to the present. Underscoring this complex continuity, Alison J. Bruey offers a compelling history of the struggle for social justice and democracy during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. As Bruey shows, crucial to the popular movement built in the 1970s were the activism of both men and women and the coalition forged by liberation-theology Catholics and Marxist-Left militants. These alliances made possible the mass protests of the 1980s that paved the way for Chile's return to democracy, but the changes fell short of many activists' hopes. Their grassroots demands for human rights encompassed not just an end to state terror but an embrace of economic opportunity and participatory democracy for all. Deeply grounded by both extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Bread, Justice, and Liberty offers innovative contributions to scholarship on Chilean history, social movements, popular protest and democratization, neoliberal economics, and the Cold War in Latin America.

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In Santiago's urban shantytowns, a searing history of poverty and Chilean state violence have prompted grassroots resistance movements among the poor and working class from the 1940s to the present. Underscoring this complex continuity, Alison J. Bruey offers a compelling history of the struggle for social justice and democracy during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. As Bruey shows, crucial to the popular movement built in the 1970s were the activism of both men and women and the coalition forged by liberation-theology Catholics and Marxist-Left militants. These alliances made possible the mass protests of the 1980s that paved the way for Chile's return to democracy, but the changes fell short of many activists' hopes. Their grassroots demands for human rights encompassed not just an end to state terror but an embrace of economic opportunity and participatory democracy for all. Deeply grounded by both extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Bread, Justice, and Liberty offers innovative contributions to scholarship on Chilean history, social movements, popular protest and democratization, neoliberal economics, and the Cold War in Latin America.

Introduction: Defying Dictatorship, Reclaiming Freedom -- 1. La Legua, Villa Francia, and the Movimiento de Pobladores -- 2. The Coup and the Past That Is Present -- 3. The Economy of Terror, 1973-1978 -- 4. Solidarity and Resistance, 1973-1978 -- 5. Miracles, Mirages, and Mobilization, 1978-1982 -- 6. National Protest and Possibility, 1983-1990 -- Epilogue: And the Joy?

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