Javier Auyero

Poor People's Politics

Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Political clientelism" is a term used to characterise the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favours. This title presents the ethnography of urban clientelism ever carried out in Argentina.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326212
• ISBN-10: 0822326213
• Artikelnr.: 21079290

Autorenporträt

Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Who Is Who in the Peronist Network xiii
Introduction: The Day of the Rally
Complaining about T-shirts on Peron's Birthday 1
1. "They Were Mostly Poor People"
Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Buenos Aires 29
2. "Most of Them Were Coming from Villa Paraiso"
History and Lived Experiences of Shantytown Dwellers 45
3. "They Knew Matilde"
The Problem-Solving Network 80
4. "We Will Fight Forever, We Are Peronists"
Eva Peron as a Public Performance 119
5. The "Clientelist" Viewpoint
How Shantytown Dwellers Perceive and Evaluate Political Clientelism 152
6. "They Were All Peronists"
The Remnants of the Populist Heresy 182
Conclusions
Problem Solving through Political Mediation as a Structure of Feeling 205
Epilogue
Last Rally 215
Notes 219
Bibliography 237
Index 255