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Introduces lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago in Chile. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, this book explores how the moral and political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and mental health policies and reparations for human rights violations are refracted through relational modes and their boundaries.

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"Thought-provoking, engaging, insightful, thoroughly researched and theoretically nuanced." -- Deborah R. Altamirano Times Higher Education "Brimming with insights and textures... Han brilliantly, often quite beautifully, fleshes out the intersections between the existential and the economic." -- Larisa Jasarevic Somatosphere

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Symptoms of Another Life 2. Social Debt, Silent Gift 3. Torture, Love, and the Everyday 4. Neoliberal Depression 5. Community Experiments 6. Life and Death, Care and Neglect Conclusion: Relations and Time Notes References Index

Life in Debt

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 5 June 2012
      ISBN-13 9780520272101
      978-0520272101
      ISBN-10 0520272102
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      Anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Introduces lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago in Chile. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, this book explores how the moral and political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and mental health policies and reparations for human rights violations are refracted through relational modes and their boundaries.

      Trade Review
      "Thought-provoking, engaging, insightful, thoroughly researched and theoretically nuanced." -- Deborah R. Altamirano Times Higher Education "Brimming with insights and textures... Han brilliantly, often quite beautifully, fleshes out the intersections between the existential and the economic." -- Larisa Jasarevic Somatosphere

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Symptoms of Another Life 2. Social Debt, Silent Gift 3. Torture, Love, and the Everyday 4. Neoliberal Depression 5. Community Experiments 6. Life and Death, Care and Neglect Conclusion: Relations and Time Notes References Index

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