{"product_id":"spatial-solidarities-ana-marza-lezen-9780822968313","title":"Spatial Solidarities: Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile","description":"Between 1973 and 1990, the authoritarian military dictatorship of Chile maintained its control through a network of detention and torture centers designed to create fear and isolation. \u003ci\u003eSpatial Solidarities\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how architects, artists, activists, and other political agents resisted the Chilean regime through spatial practices. Within these spaces, prisoners responded creatively: producing drawings, performances, and architectural projects; rearranging their bodies and living areas; and connecting through songs, shadows, and mutual care. They collected resources, created systems of mutual aid, and smuggled out site plans and names to expose the regime's crimes. Some imagined their detention centers as free towns, reversing the logic of imprisonment through theatrical acts. These cultural responses, Ana María León argues, are forms of spatial solidarity--acts of connection, care, and imagination. By focusing on spatial history, León reclaims the experiences of the disappeared through the spaces they shaped, conveying how architecture can be a tool for resistance, justice, and collective survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ana María León\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822968312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822968313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ana María León","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48621632127231,"sku":"9780822968313","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spatial-solidarities-ana-marza-lezen-9780822968313","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}