Improvising a market, making a model: social housing policy in Chile

Economy and Society

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 346-369

  Farías, Ignacio ^a,b  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

disasters; governmentality; housing; improvisation; marketization; performativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919846467     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: 14695766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2014.881596     Document Type: Article

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