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: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031505
• ISBN-10: 1478031506
• Artikelnr.: 70743957

Autorenporträt

Javier Auyero is Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU, Bilbao. He is the author of Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina, 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, all also published by Duke University Press. Sofía Servián is a BA (Licenciatura) student of Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires.

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