{"product_id":"the-right-to-dignity-housing-struggles-city-making-and-citizenship-in-urban-chile-paperback","title":"The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiguel Pérez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as \u003ci\u003epobladores\u003c\/i\u003e have long lived at the margins--and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of \u003ci\u003ela vida digna\u003c\/i\u003e (a life with dignity). From 2011 to 2015, anthropologist Miguel Pérez conducted fieldwork among the \u003ci\u003epobladores\u003c\/i\u003e of Santiago, where the urban dwellers and activists he met were part of an emerging social movement that demanded dignified living conditions, the right to remain in their neighborhoods of origin, and, more broadly, recognition as citizens entitled to basic rights. This ethnographic account raises questions about state policies that conceptualize housing as a commodity rather than a right, and how poor urban dwellers seek recognition and articulate political agency against the backdrop of neoliberal policies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy scrutinizing how Chilean \u003ci\u003epobladores\u003c\/i\u003e constitute themselves as political subjects, this book reveals the mechanisms through which housing activists develop new imaginaries of citizenship in a country where the market has been the dominant force organizing social life for almost forty years. Pérez considers the limits and potentialities of urban movements, framed by poor people's involvement in subsidy-based programs, as well as the capacity of low-income residents to struggle against the commodification of rights by claiming the right to dignity: a demand based on a moral category that would ultimately become the driving force behind Chile's 2019 social uprising.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiguel Pérez\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Alberto Hurtado University (Chile) and Associate Researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (Chile).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53103103475823,"sku":"9781503631526","price":61.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/NnhtcU80UnpDU2xKcFlJcVpNTW4rdz09.webp?v=1779069221","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/the-right-to-dignity-housing-struggles-city-making-and-citizenship-in-urban-chile-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}