UID:
almafu_9959674069202883
Format:
1 online resource (209 p.) :
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17 photographs, 1 figure
ISBN:
9780822395287
Content:
Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a polluted shantytown on the capital’s outskirts, while waiting to be allocated better housing. Scrutinizing the mundane interactions between the poor and the state, as well as underprivileged people’s confusion and uncertainty about the administrative processes that affect them, Javier Auyero argues that while waiting, the poor learn the opposite of citizenship. They learn to be patients of the state. They absorb the message that they should be patient and keep waiting, because there is nothing else that they can do. Drawing attention to a significant everyday dynamic that has received little scholarly attention until now, Auyero considers not only how the poor experience these lengthy waits but also how making poor people wait works as a strategy of state control.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction Tempography Waiting Now and Then --
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One The Time of the Denizens --
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Two Urban Relegation and Forms of Regulating Poverty --
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Three Poor People’s Waiting Speeding Up Time, but Still Waiting --
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Four The Welfare Office --
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Five Periculum in mora Flammable Revisited --
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Conclusion --
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Epilogue --
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Methodological appendix --
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Notes --
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Works cited --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780822395287
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395287
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822395287
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395287
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822395287
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822395287?locatt=mode:legacy
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