Review - Alison J. Bruey, Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51, Issue 4, November 2019, pp. 966-969
3 Pages Posted: 3 Dec 2019
Date Written: November 1, 2019
Abstract
Alison J. Bruey’s Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile is a wonderfully researched and written book. For those interested in the social history of human rights in Chile, popular resistance against the country’s 1973-1990 military regime, as well as the peculiarly Chilean elite consensus politics that consolidated over the course of the 1990s, this book will be indispensable reading. But to this reviewer at least, Bruey’s social history of grassroots activism in Chile also sheds new light on and makes important contributions to ongoing debates on the origins, historical evolution and future of human rights.
Keywords: Chile, human rights, social mobilisation, socio-economic rights, human rights history
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