The housing movement in neoliberal Chile: paradoxes and contestations

Abstract

I would like to start by thanking Emma Power for putting this book forum together and the three reviewers for their thought-provoking remarks on The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making and Citizenship in Urban Chile. Due to space constraints, it is almost impossible to address each set of comments in this response, so I see my reply as a possibility to initiate a productive intellectual exchange with Kristin Skrabut, Amanda Tattersall, and Samantha Thompson. Taken together, their comments help me situate my own research in a more global context, while allowing me to clarify some elements of my argument that I do not develop fully in the book. I’ll focus my reply on two aspects through which I can address some of my interlocutors’ thoughts: paradoxes and contestations.