Javier Auyero

Patients of the State

The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352594
• ISBN-10: 0822352591
• Artikelnr.: 34161483

Autorenporträt

Javier Auyero

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Tempography: Waiting Now and Then 1
1. The Time of the Denizens 23
2. Urban Relegation and Forms of Regulation Poverty 36
3. Poor People's Waiting: Speeding Up Time, but Still Waiting 64
4. The Welfare Office 92
5. Periculum in Mora: Flammable Revisited 128
Conclusion 153
Epilogue 162
Methodological Appendix 165
Notes 169
Works Cited 175
Index 191