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Article: Neoliberal Economics, Democratic Transition, and Mapuche Demands for Rights in Chile.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2007
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Neoliberal Economics, Democratic Transition, and Mapuche Demands for Rights in Chile. By Diane Haughney. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. 320. $59.95.)
This book is a study of two conflicting issues: the relationship between ethnic and national identity and the contradicting relationship between neoliberal market economies and the state's defense of social welfare and ecology. It is a contribution to the contemporary history of the political struggles of the Mapuche of Chile. Throughout the colonial period, the Mapuche were famous for their fierce resistance to the Spanish conquerors and colonizers, to the point of having maintained an ...