Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina

Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina
Title Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina PDF eBook
Author Javier Auyero
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 121
Release 2007-04-16
Genre Political Science
ISBN 113946471X

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Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in Argentina in December 2001. Thirty-four people were reported dead and hundreds were injured. Among the looting crowds, activists from the Peronist party (the main political party in the country) were quite prominent. During the lootings, police officers were conspicuously absent - particularly when small stores were sacked. Through a combination of archival research, statistical analysis, multi-sited fieldwork, and taking heed of the perspective of contentious politics, this book provides an analytic description of the origins, course, meanings, and outcomes of the December 2001 wave of lootings in Argentina.

Patients of the State

Patients of the State
Title Patients of the State PDF eBook
Author Javier Auyero
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 211
Release 2012-05-04
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0822352338

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Describes the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. This title also describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.

Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power. Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics.

Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power. Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics.
Title Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power. Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. PDF eBook
Author Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology Javier Auyero
Publisher
Pages 210
Release 2014-05-14
Genre Food riots
ISBN 9780511279478

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This book scrutinizes the series of food riots in Argentina in December 2001.

Violence at the Urban Margins

Violence at the Urban Margins
Title Violence at the Urban Margins PDF eBook
Author Javier Auyero
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 353
Release 2015
Genre History
ISBN 0190221445

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In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies. The inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety. They live in danger but the discourse about violence and risk belongs to, is manufactured and manipulated by, others--others who are prone to view violence at the urban margins as evidence of a cultural, or racial, defect, rather than question violence's relationship to economic and political marginalization. As a result, the experience of interpersonal violence among the urban poor becomes something unspeakable, and the everyday fear and trauma lived in relegated territories is constantly muted and denied. This edited volume seeks to counteract this pernicious tendency by putting under the ethnographic microscope--and making public--the way in which violence is lived and acted upon in the urban peripheries. It features cutting-edge ethnographic research on the role of violence in the lives of the urban poor in South, Central, and North America, and sheds light on the suffering that violence produces and perpetuates, as well as the individual and collective responses that violence generates, among those living at the urban margins of the Americas.

Flammable

Flammable
Title Flammable PDF eBook
Author Javier Auyero
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 201
Release 2009-04-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0199706689

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Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries, a hazardous and largely unsupervised waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, Flammable's soil, air, and water are contaminated with lead, chromium, benzene, and other chemicals. So are its nearly five thousand sickened and frail inhabitants. How do poor people make sense of and cope with toxic pollution? Why do they fail to understand what is objectively a clear and present danger? How are perceptions and misperceptions shared within a community? Based on archival research and two and a half years of collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in Flammable, this book examines the lived experiences of environmental suffering. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, residents allow themselves to doubt or even deny the hard facts of industrial pollution. This happens, the authors argue, through a "labor of confusion" enabled by state officials who frequently raise the issue of relocation and just as frequently suspend it; by the companies who fund local health care but assert that the area is unfit for human residence; by doctors who say the illnesses are no different from anywhere else but tell mothers they must leave the neighborhood if their families are to be cured; by journalists who randomly appear and focus on the most extreme aspects of life there; and by lawyers who encourage residents to hold out for a settlement. These contradictory actions, advice, and information work together to shape the confused experience of living in danger and ultimately translates into a long, ineffective, and uncertain waiting time, a time dictated by powerful interests and shared by all marginalized groups. With luminous and vivid descriptions of everyday life in the neighborhood, Auyero and Swistun depict this on-going slow motion human and environmental disaster and dissect the manifold ways in which it is experienced by Flammable residents.

Contentious Lives

Contentious Lives
Title Contentious Lives PDF eBook
Author Javier Auyero
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 252
Release 2003-04-09
Genre History
ISBN 9780822331155

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DIVAn oral history of popular protest in today's Argentina./div

Violence and Crime in Latin America

Violence and Crime in Latin America
Title Violence and Crime in Latin America PDF eBook
Author Gema Santamaría
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Pages 380
Release 2017-02-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0806158808

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According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations. Written by distinguished scholars of Latin American history, sociology, anthropology, and political science, the essays in this volume range from Mexico and Argentina to Colombia and Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, addressing such issues as extralegal violence in Mexico, the myth of indigenous criminality in Guatemala, and governments’ selective blindness to violent crime in Brazil and Jamaica. The authors in this collection examine not only the social construction and political visibility of violence and crime in Latin America, but the justifications for them as well. Analytically and historically, these essays show how Latin American citizens have sanctioned criminal and violent practices and incorporated them into social relations, everyday practices, and institutional settings. At the same time, the authors explore the power struggles that inform distinctions between illegitimate versus legitimate violence. Violence and Crime in Latin America makes a substantive contribution to understanding a key problem facing Latin America today. In its historical depth and ethnographic reach, this original and thought-provoking volume enhances our understanding of crime and violence throughout the Western Hemisphere.