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Flammable : environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown / Javier Auyero and Débora Alejandra Swistun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auyero, Javier, author.
- Swistun, Débora Alejandra, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slums--Argentina--Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
- Slums.
- Poor--Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Poor.
- Hazardous wastes--Argentina--Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
- Hazardous wastes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this collaborative ethnography, Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun vividly describe everyday life in Flammable and depict how this ongoing, slow-motion environmental disaster is experienced and understood by its residents.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-186) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774313-7
- 0-19-988826-4
- 1-282-05386-8
- 0-19-537294-8
- 9786612053863
- 0-19-970668-9
- OCLC:
- 373185477
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