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Author: William L. Alexander Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780739118658 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 222
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In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for social services and public resources to the private sector, reducing restrictions on foreign investment, and promoting free trade and export production, neoliberalism began during the Pinochet dictatorship and was adopted across Latin America in the 1980s. With the return of civilian government, the pursuit of justice and equity worked alongside a pact of compromise and an economic model that brought prosperity for some, entrenched poverty for others, and had social consequences for all. The authors, who come from the disciplines of cultural anthropology, history, political science, and geography, focus their research perspectives on issues including privatization of water rights in arid lands, tuberculosis and the public health crisis, labor strikes and the changing role of unions, the environmental and cultural impacts of export development initiatives on small-scale fishing communities, natural resource conservation in the private sector, the political ecology of copper, the fight for affordable housing, homelessness and citizenship rights under the judicial system, and the gender experiences of returned exiles. In the years leading up to the global financial meltdown of 2008, many Latin American governments, responding to inequities at home and attempting to pull themselves out of debt dependency, moved away from the Chilean model. This book examines the social costs of that model and the growing resistance to neoliberalism in Chile, providing ethnographic details of the struggles of those excluded from its benefits. This research offers a look at the lives of those whose stories may have otherwise been lost in the long transition. Book jacket.
Author: William L. Alexander Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780739118658 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for social services and public resources to the private sector, reducing restrictions on foreign investment, and promoting free trade and export production, neoliberalism began during the Pinochet dictatorship and was adopted across Latin America in the 1980s. With the return of civilian government, the pursuit of justice and equity worked alongside a pact of compromise and an economic model that brought prosperity for some, entrenched poverty for others, and had social consequences for all. The authors, who come from the disciplines of cultural anthropology, history, political science, and geography, focus their research perspectives on issues including privatization of water rights in arid lands, tuberculosis and the public health crisis, labor strikes and the changing role of unions, the environmental and cultural impacts of export development initiatives on small-scale fishing communities, natural resource conservation in the private sector, the political ecology of copper, the fight for affordable housing, homelessness and citizenship rights under the judicial system, and the gender experiences of returned exiles. In the years leading up to the global financial meltdown of 2008, many Latin American governments, responding to inequities at home and attempting to pull themselves out of debt dependency, moved away from the Chilean model. This book examines the social costs of that model and the growing resistance to neoliberalism in Chile, providing ethnographic details of the struggles of those excluded from its benefits. This research offers a look at the lives of those whose stories may have otherwise been lost in the long transition. Book jacket.
Author: Kristen Ghodsee Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822351021 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
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Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past.
Author: Christian Smith Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199828024 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 291
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In Lost in Transition, Christian Smith and his collaborators draw on 230 in-depth interviews with a broad cross-section of emerging adults (ages 18-23) to investigate the difficulties young people face today, the underlying causes of those difficulties, and the consequences both for individuals and for American society as a whole. --From publisher description.
Author: Christian Smith Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0195371798 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 364
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Based on candid interviews with thousands of young people tracked over a five-year period, this book reveals how the religious practices of the teenagers portrayed in Soul Searching have been strengthened, challenged, and often changed as they have moved into adulthood.
Author: Thomas Cornell Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781090714664 Category : Languages : en Pages : 239
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In Thomas Cornell's second novel 'Lost In Transition' A young man living in a big city in the industrial era of America deals with loss, depression, mental disorders, assassinations, mental institutions, college, art, music, psychology, spirituality, loss of faith, faith, hallucinations, culture, love, medications and violence. The story also at one point harkens back to the characters teenage days in a mysterious and distant land in the far east in the developing world of the late nineteenth century to add further insight, excitement, and suspense to the developing novel about a character who deals with his own internal battles as well as external battles in a world not forgotten, but often not remembered in our day and age. The turn of the 20th century. Thomas Cornell's second novel is a historical, adventurous and insane outlook of a troubled young man from that era. Very deep questions are presented and asked in the novel as the character try's to figure out himself and the world around him. You will not want to put this book down once you start reading it. Lost In Transition just might be the most entertaining and most meaningful book you've read in a long time.
Author: Mary C. Brinton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139492527 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages :
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Lost in Transition tells the story of the 'lost generation' that came of age in Japan's deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have had an especially strong impact on the young generation. The country's renowned 'permanent employment system' has unraveled for young workers, only to be replaced by temporary and insecure forms of employment. The much-admired system of moving young people smoothly from school to work has frayed. The book argues that these changes in the very fabric of Japanese postwar institutions have loosened young people's attachment to school as the launching pad into the world of work and loosened their attachment to the workplace as a source of identity and security. The implications for the future of Japanese society - and the fault lines within it - loom large.
Author: William L. Alexander Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739141511 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 219
Book Description
Presenting case studies by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and environmental specialists,Lost in the Long Transition critically examines the impact of neoliberal economic and social policies at the local level in post-dictatorship Chile. Topics include privatization of water rights, tuberculosis and public health crises, the role of labor unions, industrial salmon farming, natural resource conservation, the political ecology of copper, struggles for affordable housing, homelessness and citizenship rights, and gender identity issues in the experiences of returned exiles.
Author: William L. Alexander
Author: William L. Alexander
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