Flammable Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown

Name: Flammable Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
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ISBN: 9780195372939

ISBN-10: 019537293X

ISBN-13: 9780195372939

Edition: 2009

Authors: Javier Auyero, Dï¿½bora Alejandra Swistun

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Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river, a hazardous waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, the shantytown Flammable suffers from rampant contamination of its soil, air, and water. In this book, Javier Auyero and Flammable resident Debora Alejandra Swistun draw upon archival research and two and a half years of fieldwork to explore the lived experiences of environmental suffering. Perhaps most interesting, the authors show that residents doubt or even deny the harmful impact of pollution on their lives. This denial of the obvious occurs through a "labor of confusion" generated by state officials who frequently raise the issue…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction



Villas del Riachuelo: Life amid Hazards, Garbage, and Poison



The Compound and the Neighborhood



Toxic Wor(l)ds



The (Confused and Mistaken) Categories of the Dominated



Exposed Waiting



Collective Disbelief in Joint Action



The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty


Conclusion: Ethnography and Environmental Suffering


Acknowledgments


Notes


References


Index