Surviving Dictatorship: A Work of Visual Sociology

by Jacqueline Adams

Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship 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.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415998042
• ISBN13: 9780415998048
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.9"