Auyero Patients of the State

The Politics of Waiting in Argentina
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9528-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 209 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Auyero, Javier

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.