Flammable : environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown / Javier Auyero and Débora Alejandra Swistun.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Auyero, Javier
Other Authors: Swistun, Débora Alejandra
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Slums > Argentina > Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
Poor > Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Hazardous wastes > Argentina > Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
Physical Description:188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Villas del Riachuelo. Life amidst 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
  • Conclusions : ethnography and environmental suffering.