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Patients of the state : the politics of waiting in Argentina / Javier Auyero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auyero, Javier.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--Services for--Argentina.
- Poor.
- Poor--Government policy--Argentina.
- Poverty--Argentina.
- Poverty.
- Marginality, Social--Argentina.
- Marginality, Social.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record
- ISBN:
- 9786613582492
- 9781280487262
- 1280487267
- 9780822395287
- 0822395282
- OCLC:
- 792757192
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