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Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires

by Javier Auyero
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781478031505
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
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  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: GBP 19.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 308 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social

In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sof?a Servi?n 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 Servi?n'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 Servi?n 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, 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.

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