Lost in the Long Transition: Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile Book

Preface vii

1 Introduction: Enduring Contradictions of the Neoliberal State in Chile William L. Alexander 1

Part I Private Interests and the Public Good

2 The 1981 Water Code: The Impacts of Private Tradable Water Rights on Peasant and Indigenous Communities in Northern Chile Jessica Budds 41

3 Intersections or Fault Lines? Chile's Free National Tuberculosis Treatment Program Within a Privatizing Health System Joan E. Paluzzi 63

4 Confronting Global Corporations: The Strike in Minera Escondida and Workers' Struggles in Contemporary Chile Angela Vergara 83

5 Globalization Hits El Trauco: The Archipelago of Chiloé in the Era of Neoliberalism Anton Daughters 97

6 Purchasing Patagonia: The Contradictions of Conservation in Free Market Chile Emily Wakild 115

Part II In Place, At Issue: Identity, Community, Consciousness

7 Cultural History "Written in the Margins": Political Ecology of Copper and Community in the "Little North" William L. Alexander 131

8 Builders of the City: Pobladores and the Territorialization of Class Identity in Chile Margot Olavarria 153

9 The Politics of Street Children in Chile Guadalupe Salazar 169

10 Repatriating Women: Navigating the Way "Home" in Neoliberal Chile Deborah R. Altamirano 185

Index 199

About the Authors 207