Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile

by Clara Han and Jiawei Han

Book Overview

Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor accrued through inequalities generated by economic liberalization, while society owed a "moral debt" to the victims of human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520272102
• ISBN13: 9780520272101
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"