Surviving Dictatorship

Name: Surviving Dictatorship
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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A Work of Visual Sociology

By: Jacqueline Adams

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Hardcover | 7 March 2012 | Edition Number 1

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320 Pages

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28.0 x 21.0 x 2.54

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Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet's Chile.

It focuses on shantytown women, examining how they join groups to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and targeted repression, and how this leads them into very varied forms of resistance aimed at self-protection, community-building, and mounting an offensive. Drawing on a visual database of shantytown photographs, art, posters, flyers, and bulletins, as well as on interviews, photo elicitation, and archival research, the book is an example of how multiple methods might be successfully employed to examine dictatorship from the perspective of some of the least powerful members of society. It is ideal for courses in social inequalities, poverty, race/class/gender, political sociology, global studies, urban studies, women's studies, human rights, oral history, and qualitative methods.

Industry Reviews

"Adams combines her own incisive photographs, vivid testimony from the women who made these remarkable political textiles, and a penetrating sociological analysis to give readers an intimate sense of life under a dictatorship." - Howard S. Becker, Sociologist, Author of Outsiders and Art Worlds

"Jacqueline Adams' Surviving Dictatorship is a courageous examination of 'shantytown sociology,' particularly the strategies employed by women to resist, survive, and ultimately triumph over dictatorship. Her study examines social processes in one version of the shantytowns that constitute a shocking percentage of the world's population. Her work will be important both for its contribution to understanding the social history of Chile's dark past, and for its novel use of visual sociology methods. A must read." - Douglas Harper, Sociology, Duquesne University

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