Routine politics and violence in Argentina : the gray zone of state power / Javier Auyero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auyero, Javier, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in contentious politics.

Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Partido Peronista (Argentina).

Food riots--Argentina.

Food riots.

Pillage--Argentina.

Pillage.

Violence--Argentina.

Violence.

Political violence--Argentina.

Political violence.

Peronism.

Law enforcement--Argentina.

Law enforcement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Routine Politics & Violence in Argentina

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in Argentina in December 2001. Thirty-four people were reported dead and hundreds were injured. Among the looting crowds, activists from the Peronist party (the main political party in the country) were quite prominent. During the lootings, police officers were conspicuously absent - particularly when small stores were sacked. Through a combination of archival research, statistical analysis, multi-sited fieldwork, and taking heed of the perspective of contentious politics, this book provides an analytic description of the origins, course, meanings, and outcomes of the December 2001 wave of lootings in Argentina.

Contents:

The gray zone

Party politics and everyday life

Food lootings

Moreno and La Matanza lootings

Making sense of collective violence.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17210-1

1-280-85070-1

0-511-27947-7

0-511-81481-X

0-511-27887-X

0-511-27770-9

0-511-32202-X

0-511-27829-2

OCLC:

252536214