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Patients of the state : the politics of waiting in Argentina /Javier Auyero

By: Javier AuyeroContributor(s): Javier AuyeroMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002Publication details: Durham : Duke University Press , 2012Description: xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: 9780822352334Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Marginality, SocialDDC classification: 362.5560982 AUY

Contents:

The time of the denizens -- Urban relegation and forms of regulating poverty -- Poor people's waiting -- The welfare office -- Periculum in mora : flammable revisited.

Summary: This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.

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The time of the denizens --
Urban relegation and forms of regulating poverty --
Poor people's waiting --
The welfare office --
Periculum in mora : flammable revisited.

This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.

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