Andra B Chastain
Biographic Data
| ID | 724902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andra B Chastain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andra B |
| FAMILY NAME | Chastain |
| SIGNATURE | CHASTAIN A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University Vancouver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6225-7993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The survival of our influence’: French cultural and economic relations with Chile, 1960–1980
Tanya Harmer. Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup
Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City
A fascinating historical examination of the Santiago Metro system as a microcosm of Chilean national identity during the twentieth century The Santiago Metro, the largest urban infrastructure project in Chile’s history, was designed in the 1960s in response to rapid urban growth. Despite the upheavals of Salvador Allende’s democratic socialism (1970–1973) and Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990), the project survived and is now th…
Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile
Ángela Vergara has written a compelling, well-researched account of unemployment's human consequences and the Chilean state's efforts to relieve the suffering caused by cyclical economic crises. Drawing on records from Chile's Labor Department and the International Labor Organization (ILO), Vergara charts growing concern over unemployment in the early twentieth century, details government aid agencies' varied efforts to assist the poor and unempl…
A shameful and uncivilized spectacle”: Taxibuses, students, and the conflicted road to deregulation in Pinochet’s Chile, 1975–1978
As the military regime of Augusto Pinochet deregulated urban transportation in the late 1970s, controversy flared over a popular mode of urban transit called a taxibus, a small bus with a higher fare than a full-sized bus. This article utilizes newspaper sources to examine the struggles that played out between the taxibus industry, the government, and passengers in the midst of shifting policies. It focuses in particular on controversies surround…
Rethinking Basic Infrastructure: French Aid and Metro Development in Postwar Latin America
In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts entstanden in lateinamerikanischen Metropolen acht neue U-Bahn-Systeme, darunter in Mexiko, Brasilien, Chile und Venezuela. Welche Fak- toren können diese dramatischen Veränderungen in urbanen Räumen erklären? Der Aufsatz argumentiert, dass dafür französische Akteure verantwortlich waren. Während internationale Entwicklungsagenturen grundlegende Infrastrukturprojekte wie Häfen oder Dämme förderten, bot s…
Beyond Resistance: New Works on Urban Popular Politics in Latin America’s Informal Cities
A shameful and uncivilized spectacle”: Taxibuses, students, and the conflicted road to deregulation in Pinochet’s Chile, 1975–1978
As the military regime of Augusto Pinochet deregulated urban transportation in the late 1970s, controversy flared over a popular mode of urban transit called a taxibus, a small bus with a higher fare than a full-sized bus. This article utilizes newspaper sources to examine the struggles that played out between the taxibus industry, the government, and passengers in the midst of shifting policies. It focuses in particular on controversies surround…
Beyond Resistance: New Works on Urban Popular Politics in Latin America’s Informal Cities
Rethinking Basic Infrastructure: French Aid and Metro Development in Postwar Latin America
In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts entstanden in lateinamerikanischen Metropolen acht neue U-Bahn-Systeme, darunter in Mexiko, Brasilien, Chile und Venezuela. Welche Fak- toren können diese dramatischen Veränderungen in urbanen Räumen erklären? Der Aufsatz argumentiert, dass dafür französische Akteure verantwortlich waren. Während internationale Entwicklungsagenturen grundlegende Infrastrukturprojekte wie Häfen oder Dämme förderten, bot s…
A shameful and uncivilized spectacle”: Taxibuses, students, and the conflicted road to deregulation in Pinochet’s Chile, 1975–1978
As the military regime of Augusto Pinochet deregulated urban transportation in the late 1970s, controversy flared over a popular mode of urban transit called a taxibus, a small bus with a higher fare than a full-sized bus. This article utilizes newspaper sources to examine the struggles that played out between the taxibus industry, the government, and passengers in the midst of shifting policies. It focuses in particular on controversies surround…
Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile
Ángela Vergara has written a compelling, well-researched account of unemployment's human consequences and the Chilean state's efforts to relieve the suffering caused by cyclical economic crises. Drawing on records from Chile's Labor Department and the International Labor Organization (ILO), Vergara charts growing concern over unemployment in the early twentieth century, details government aid agencies' varied efforts to assist the poor and unempl…
Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City
A fascinating historical examination of the Santiago Metro system as a microcosm of Chilean national identity during the twentieth century The Santiago Metro, the largest urban infrastructure project in Chile’s history, was designed in the 1960s in response to rapid urban growth. Despite the upheavals of Salvador Allende’s democratic socialism (1970–1973) and Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990), the project survived and is now th…
Tanya Harmer. Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup
The survival of our influence’: French cultural and economic relations with Chile, 1960–1980
Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (5 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Latin American Urban Studies (2 works)