Surviving Dictatorship

<p>Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars <em>Surviving Dictatorship</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p>