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In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins—and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of la vida digna (a life with dignity). From 2011 to 2015, anthropologist Miguel Pérez conducted fieldwork among the pobladores of Santiago, where the urban dwellers and activists he met were part of an emerging social movement that demanded dignified living conditions, the right to remain in their neighborhoods of origin, and, more broadly, recognition as citizens entitled to basic rights. This ethnographic account raises questions about state policies that conceptualize housing as a commodity rather than a right, and how poor urban dwellers seek recognition and articulate political agency against the backdrop of neoliberal policies. By scrutinizing how Chilean pobladores constitute themselves as political subjects, this book reveals the mechanisms through which housing activists develop new imaginaries of citizenship in a country where the market has been the dominant force organizing social life for almost forty years. Pérez considers the limits and potentialities of urban movements, framed by poor people's involvement in subsidy-based programs, as well as the capacity of low-income residents to struggle against the commodification of rights by claiming the right to dignity: a demand based on a moral category that would ultimately become the driving force behind Chile's 2019 social uprising.

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In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins—and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of la vida digna (a life with dignity). From 2011 to 2015, anthropologist Miguel Pérez conducted fieldwork among the pobladores of Santiago, where the urban dwellers and activists he met were part of an emerging social movement that demanded dignified living conditions, the right to remain in their neighborhoods of origin, and, more broadly, recognition as citizens entitled to basic rights. This ethnographic account raises questions about state policies that conceptualize housing as a commodity rather than a right, and how poor urban dwellers seek recognition and articulate political agency against the backdrop of neoliberal policies. By scrutinizing how Chilean pobladores constitute themselves as political subjects, this book reveals the mechanisms through which housing activists develop new imaginaries of citizenship in a country where the market has been the dominant force organizing social life for almost forty years. Pérez considers the limits and potentialities of urban movements, framed by poor people's involvement in subsidy-based programs, as well as the capacity of low-income residents to struggle against the commodification of rights by claiming the right to dignity: a demand based on a moral category that would ultimately become the driving force behind Chile's 2019 social uprising.

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El nacimiento de la filosofía es inseparable de las preguntas fundamentales en torno al ser humano: quiénes somos, de dónde venimos y a dónde vamos. Y de la respuesta a ellas dependen a su vez muchas otras cuestiones que nos interpelan a todos, como cuál es la relación del ser humano con la Naturaleza, qué es lo que nos distingue de otros seres vivos, cómo nos relacionamos entre nosotros (familia, amistad, sociedad, etc.) o, de un modo mucho más personal, cuál es el sentido de mi vida. A estos clásicos interrogantes se han unido en tiempos recientes otros ligados al desarrollo vertiginoso de la ciencia y la tecnología, pues hay quien piensa, por ejemplo, que en pocas décadas podremos superar todos los límites de nuestra especie, gozando de superinteligencia, superlongevidad y superbienester (Transhumanismo).En este libro se recogen las contribuciones de más de treinta profesores universitarios, de muy diversos ámbitos académicos (filosofía, biología, física, derecho, psicología, et

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