Book Project
SURVIVING POLITICAL EXCLUSION IN THE URBAN MARGINS
Citizenship and Mobilisation in Post-dictatorial Chile
With Chile’s return to democracy in 1990, civil society suffered a substantial deactivation. Political exclusion affected the urban poor more severely. This project seeks to explain sustainable mobilisation in exceptional underprivileged neighbourhoods that overcame the barriers of transitional demobilisation to remain politicised.
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MOBILISING AT THE URBAN MARGINS
Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Contemporary Chile
This project examines why and how the Chilean urban poor have sustained mobilization since the 1980s. In many occasions, the collective struggles of the Latin American urban poor have challenged national and local imbalances of power. Neoliberal policies, dictatorial repression, and strategies of institutional instrumentalization have persistently excluded the poor. Despite these contexts of extreme marginality, the underprivileged sustain a sense of dignity that allows them to collectively organize and claim rights.
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