{"product_id":"the-right-to-dignity-miguel-prez-9781503631526","title":"The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile","description":"\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 P駻ez 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. P駻ez 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miguel P駻ez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503631524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503631526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Miguel P駻ez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053068546303,"sku":"9781503631526","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c4ef3cb-df94-4625-9a05-a9b9fd510ce4.jpg?v=1685022217","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-right-to-dignity-miguel-prez-9781503631526","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}