Javier Auyero

Flammable

Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown

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Produktbeschreibung

In this collaborative ethnography, Javier Auyero and D¿ra Alejandra Swistun-who was born and raised in the dreadfully polluted shantytown in Buenos Aires from which the book takes its name-vividly describe everyday life in Flammable and depict how this ongoing, slow-motion environmental disaster is experienced and understood by its residents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780195372939
• ISBN-10: 019537293X
• Artikelnr.: 25543654

Autorenporträt

Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, and is the author of, among other books, Routine Politics and Collective Violence in Argentina. Débora Alejandra Swistun received her BA in Anthropology from the University of La Plata, Argentina.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.: Villas del Riachuelo. Life amidst Hazards, Garbage, and Poison
2.: The Compound and the Neighborhood
3.: Toxic Wor(l)ds
4.: The (Confused and Mistaken) Categories of the Dominated
5.: Exposed Waiting
6.: Collective Disbelief in Joint Action
7.: The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty
8.: Ethnography and Environmental Suffering
Acknowledgments
Notes