Description
Book SynopsisIntroduces 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 ContentsAcknowledgments 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
