Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile Stillerman Joel
Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile Stillerman Joel After Pinochet's dictatorship ended in Chile in 1990, the country experienced a rapid decline…
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Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile Stillerman Joel
After Pinochet's dictatorship ended in Chile in 1990, the country experienced a rapid decline in poverty along with a quickly growing economy. Identity Investments examines the politics and consumption practices of this vast and varied fraction of the Chilean population, seeking to better understand their value systems and the histories that informed them.Using participant observation, interviews, and photographs, Joel Stillerman develops a unique typology of the middle class, made up of activists, moderate Catholics, pragmatists, and youngsters. As a result, Chile's middle class expanded dramatically, echoing trends seen across the Global South as neoliberalism took firm hold in the 1990s and the early 2000s.
This typology allows him to unearth the cultural, political, and religious roots of middle-class market practices in contrast with other studies focused on social