Bread, Justice, and Liberty : Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile / Alison J. Bruey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruey, Alison J., author.

Series:

Critical human rights.

Critical human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chile--History--1973-1988.

Chile.

Poor--Chile--Santiago.

Poor.

Government, Resistance to--Chile--Santiago.

Government, Resistance to.

Human rights workers--Chile--Santiago.

Human rights workers.

Political activists--Chile--Santiago.

Political activists.

Protest movements--Chile--Santiago.

Protest movements.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

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?

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299316136

0299316130

OCLC:

1043555887