Javier Auyero, Sofía Servián

Squatter Life

Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires

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Produktbeschreibung

Sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofía Servián detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina’s urban poor rely on to survive, showing how they contend with violence and secure necessities like food, land, and housing despite inadequate state support and protection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028291
• ISBN-10: 1478028297
• Artikelnr.: 70743004

Autorenporträt

Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Explicating Subsistence at the Margins
2. Collective Action and Party Politics in the Makings of a Squatter
Settlement
3. Persistence Strategies
4. Brokers and Their Followers
5. Lives at Risk: How Do Residents Experience, Explain, and Deal with
Interpersonal Violence
6. Victims and Perpetrators
7. The State of Violence, the Violence of the State
8. Women at Work: The Social Life of a Community Center
9. How Does Marginality Feel?
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index