Squatter life : persistence at the urban margins of Buenos Aires / Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auyero, Javier, author.

Servián, Sofía, 1998- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Squatters--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Squatters.

Urban poor--Housing--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Urban poor.

Victims of violent crimes--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Victims of violent crimes.

Marginality, Social--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Marginality, Social.

Poor women--Political activity--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Poor women.

Women in community development--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Women in community development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Squatter Life examines the subsistence strategies of the urban poor of Buenos Aires, examining how they obtain shelter and food, how they deal with the interpersonal violence that often surrounds them, and how these strategies interact within their relationships both within and outside of their neighborhoods. Javier Auyero and Sofia Servian argue that these strategies showcase not only hope and projects of collective improvement, but continual persistence in the face of seemingly insurmountable barriers. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork carried out for over thirty months in three Buenos Aires neighborhoods (La Matera, El Tala, and La Paz), Auyero and Servian center the material elements of marginality by focusing on the tactile work of the urban poor, including infrastructure construction, securing food, and how they build their homes. Individual chapters utilize interlocutors to investigate broader concepts such as the political actions of neighborhood brokers, the violent interactions of the neighborhoods they study, women's roles in soup kitchens and, subsequently, in fostering community, and neighborhood-wide collective action"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Explicating subsistence at the margins

Collective action and party politics in the makings of a squatter settlement

Persistence strategies

Brokers and their followers

Lives at risk : how do residents experience, explain, and deal with interpersonal violence?

Victims and perpetrators

The state of violence, the violence of the state

Women at work : the social life of a community center

How does marginality feel?

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Auyero, Javier. Squatter life.

ISBN:

9781478060482

1478060484

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.