Bread, Justice, and Liberty
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Bread, Justice, and Liberty

Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile

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Bread, Justice, and Liberty

Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile

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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 Libert y 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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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780299316136
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Introduction: Defying Dictatorship, Reclaiming Freedom
  6. 1. La Legua, Villa Francia, and the Movimiento de Pobladores
  7. 2. The Coup and the Past That Is Present
  8. 3. The Economy of Terror, 1973–1978
  9. 4. Solidarity and Resistance, 1973–1978
  10. 5. Miracles, Mirages, and Mobilization, 1978–1982
  11. 6. National Protest and Possibility, 1983–1990
  12. Epilogue: And the Joy?
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index