Surviving Dictatorship : A Work of Visual Sociology

ISBN-13: 9780415998031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str.

Jacqueline Adams

Opis

Written as a book for undergraduate students, Surviving Dictatorship is both a visual sociology and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty and powerlessness in an authoritarian society: Pinochet's Chile. So powerful a shaper of the poor's experience is a dictatorship, that one might add degree of authoritarianism (conceived by Patricia Hill Collins) as an additional dimension to the idea. This book is ideal for courses in social inequalities, poverty, and race, class and gender.

Spis treści

1. Shantytown Women and Dictatorship  2. Living with Repression  3. Unemployment and Exacerbated Poverty  4. Surviving Poverty in the Shantytowns  5. Resistance: Self-Protection and Community Affirmation  6. Mounting an Offensive  7. Ties Between Groups  8. Surviving Dictatorship

O autorze

Jacqueline Adams is the author of articles and a book on the making of dissident art under dictatorship, shantytown women’s reactions to the end of dictatorship, exile, and decision-making about migration. She has won a Pacific Sociological Association award and had an article selected as a benchmark by SAGE. She has worked as an assistant professor of sociology in Hong Kong, senior researcher at the University of Coimbra, and research fellow, scholar-in-residence, and visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, where she is currently based.