Squatter Life
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2829-1 (ISBN)
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In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofía Servián detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina’s urban poor rely on to survive. Blending three years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with personal narratives of Servián’s experience growing up and living in a squatter settlement, the authors examine how Argentina’s squatter communities contend with violence and secure necessities like food, land, and housing despite inadequate state support and protection. Auyero and Servián recount the bricolage of tactics these individuals employ to make ends meet such as relying on highly exploitative jobs, patronage, and networks of reciprocal exchange that can involve illicit activities. Analyzing how these survival strategies intersect with class, gender, and political domination, the authors present a nuanced account of marginality in Argentinian squatter settlements while maintaining a deeply human portrait of survival and persistence.
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.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 11 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 572 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-2829-7 / 1478028297 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-2829-1 / 9781478028291 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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