Javier Auyero

Broschiertes Buch

Patients of the State

The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

Beschreibung

This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.

Autor

Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power and a co-author of Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. His books Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition and Poor People’s Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita are both also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352334
• ISBN-10: 0822352338
• Artikelnr.: 34162606