{"product_id":"marketing-democracy-power-and-social-movements-in-post-dictatorship-chile-paperback","title":"Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Paley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of \u003ci\u003epoblación\u003c\/i\u003e(shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge poor health care in their community and to denounce military rule. How did their organization respond seven years later when Chile's transition to democracy brought an end to dictatorship but no clear solution to ongoing health problems? \u003ci\u003eMarketing Democracy \u003c\/i\u003eshows how the exercise of power and the strategies of social movements transformed with the transition from a military to an elected-civilian regime in Chile. The term \"marketing democracy\" refers first to how contemporary democracies are shaped by transnational market forces, and second to how politicians have promoted democracy with the twin goals of attracting foreign capital and diminishing social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis will be an important book, and a powerful exemplar for the growing numbers of anthropologists who seek to place such things as democracy, citizenship, and neoliberalism under an ethnographic lens.--James Ferguson, author of \u003ci\u003eExpectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambin Copperbelt\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In joining activism and fine ethnography, Paley enables us to appreciate the profound complexity of the links between civil society and public institutions. Chakrabarty's assessment of \"the undemocratic foundations of 'democracy'\" becomes a fine analytic tool as it is refracted in the words of the women of Población La Bandera.\"--Charles Briggs, author of \u003ci\u003eLearning How to Ask\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paley has produced an insightful and fascinating exploration of the shifting meanings of democracy for the Chilean state and for shantytown activists across the Pinochet dictatorship and through the contradictory democratic politics of the 1990s. The marketing of democracy is a highly relevant issue for societies and states throughout the world.\"--Kay Warren, author of \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important challenge to Polyanna conventional wisdoms about democratic transitions and neo-liberal miracles in Chile and its neighbors.\"--Peter Winn, author of \u003ci\u003eWeavers of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is anthropology as the observation of and involvement in, the new, participatory politics of the previously excluded.\"--Sally Falk Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eLaw as Process\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Paley \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 273\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.99 x 6.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133476769927,"sku":"9780520227682","price":57.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/27cff7648ecea748ba3358ff8811ffbe.webp?v=1732634634","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/marketing-democracy-power-and-social-movements-in-post-dictatorship-chile-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}