Patients of the State The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

Name: Patients of the State The Politics of Waiting in Argentina
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ISBN: 9780822352334

ISBN-10: 0822352338

ISBN-13: 9780822352334

Edition: 2012

Authors: Javier Auyero

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Patients of the Stateis a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a polluted shantytown on the capital’s outskirts, while waiting to be allocated better housing. Scrutinizing the mundane interactions between the poor and the state, as well as underprivileged people’s confusion and uncertainty about the administrative processes that affect them, Javier Auyero argues that…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English