Surviving Dictatorship

Jacqueline Adams is the author of articles and a book on the making of dissident art under dictatorship, shantytown women’s reactions to the end of dictatorship, exile, and decision-making about migration. She has won a Pacific Sociological Association award and had an article selected as a benchmark by SAGE. She has worked as an assistant professor of sociology in Hong Kong, senior researcher at the University of Coimbra, and research fellow, scholar-in-residence, and visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, where she is currently based.

"Adams combines her own incisive photographs, vivid testimony from the women who made these remarkable political textiles, and a penetrating sociological analysis to give readers an intimate sense of life under a dictatorship." – Howard S. Becker, Sociologist, Author of Outsiders and Art Worlds "Jacqueline Adams’ Surviving Dictatorship is a courageous examination of ‘shantytown sociology,’ particularly the strategies employed by women to resist, survive, and ultimately triumph over dictatorship. Her study examines social processes in one version of the shantytowns that constitute a shocking percentage of the world’s population. Her work will be important both for its contribution to understanding the social history of Chile’s dark past, and for its novel use of visual sociology methods. A must read." – Douglas Harper, Sociology, Duquesne University

• 1. Shantytown Women and Dictatorship 2. Living with Repression 3. Unemployment and Exacerbated Poverty 4. Surviving Poverty in the Shantytowns 5. Resistance: Self-Protection and Community Affirmation 6. Mounting an Offensive 7. Ties Between Groups 8. Surviving Dictatorship