Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism in Chile

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Chile and the Renewal of Social Critique

   • Juan Pablo Rodríguez

   Pages 1-14

3. The Move to Critique

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Critical Theories and Social Critique

      • Juan Pablo Rodríguez

      Pages 17-54

   3. Social Critique and the Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping

      • Juan Pablo Rodríguez

      Pages 55-81

   4. Social Movements Studies and Social Critique

      • Juan Pablo Rodríguez

      Pages 83-105

4. The Critique in Movements

   1. Front Matter

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   2. From ‘Laboratory’ to ‘Paradise’: 40 Years of Neoliberalism in Chile

      • Juan Pablo Rodríguez

      Pages 109-117

   3. Mapping the Neoliberal City: Pobladores Resisting Social Fragmentation in Chile

      • Juan Pablo Rodríguez

      Pages 119-158

   4. Mapping the Neoliberal Education System: The 2011 Chilean Student Movement

      • Juan Pablo Rodríguez

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   5. Pobladores and Students Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism in Chile

      • Juan Pablo Rodríguez

      Pages 195-211

5. Back Matter

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This book explores the relationship between recent theoretical debates around the fate of critique of neoliberal capitalism and critical theory, on the one hand, and the critical theories generated in and by social movements in Chile, on the other. By taking the idea of social critique as a field that encompasses both critical social theories and the practices of social criticism carried out by social movements, Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism in Chile explores how the student and the Pobladores movements map, resist and contest neoliberal capitalism in commodified areas such as education and housing in Chile, one of the first ‘neoliberal experiments’ in Latin America and the world.

• critical social theory
• 2008 financial crisis
• capitalism
• radical democracy
• right wing populisms
• post-Marxist
• critical theory
• critical sociology
• ideology
• Luc Boltanski
• social movement
• Jacques Rancière
• Judith Butler
• Fredric Jameson
• E.O Wright
• Axel Honneth
• Ruth Levitas
• David Harvey
• Pobladores
• student movement

“Rodriguez adds to this literature by exploring how renewed critiques of capitalism, informed by Marxist thought and produced by social movements, advance our understanding of social conflict and emancipatory politics. The main contribution of Rodriguez’s book is his effort to bring neo-Marxist thinking to the analysis of contemporary social movements.” (Hector Rios-Jara, Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 20 (3), September, 2021)

“This ambitious book is a welcome contribution to a sociology of social movements grounded in a reflexive dialogue between critical theory, social movement studies and empirical enquiry … . it is promising that there are clear signs that researchers are returning to a much-needed sociology of social movements emerging from a reflexive dialogue between critical theories, social movement studies and empirical enquiry.” (Malik Fercovic, LSE Review of Books, April 22, 2020)

“This is an impressive and engaging book, combining systematic reflection on the very idea of social critique with a well-grounded presentation of Chilean social movements that embody critique in practice. Juan Pablo Rodriguez's orchestration of key analytical perspectives represents a strong contribution to neo-Marxist theory in its own right; but real radical campaigns are then allowed to speak back in their own voice.” (Gregor McLennan, Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol, UK)

• School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  Juan Pablo Rodríguez

Juan Pablo Rodríguez received an M.A in Social and Political Thought from the University of Birmingham (2010) and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bristol (2018). He has worked as researcher and part-time lecturer in Chilean universities, teaching modules on classic, modern and contemporary sociological theory, political sociology and social movements. Juan Pablo Rodríguez’s research interests include social theory, neo and post Marxism, and social movements, especially contemporary housing, student and socio-environmental movements. He is currently an honorary research associate at the University of Bristol and a visiting postdoctoral research fellow at the Latin American Centre (LAC), University of Oxford.

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