Flammable : Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
ISBN: 9780195372939 | 019537293X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/10/2009
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Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river, a hazardous waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, the shantytown Flammable suffers from rampant contamination of its soil, air, and water. In this book, Javier Auyero and Flammable resident Débora Alejandra Swistun draw upon archival research and two and a half years of fieldwork to explore the lived experiences of environmental suffering. Perhaps most interesting, theauthors show that residents doubt or even deny the harmful impact of poll... MORE
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Villas del Riachuelo: Life amid Hazards, Garbage, and Poison | p. 21 |
| The Compound and the Neighborhood | p. 28 |
| Toxic Wor(l)ds | p. 62 |
| The (Confused and Mistaken) Categories of the Dominated | p. 81 |
| Exposed Waiting | p. 109 |
| Collective Disbelief in Joint Action | p. 130 |
| The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty | p. 140 |
| Conclusion... MORE | p. 153 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 161 |
| Notes | p. 165 |
| References | p. 175 |
| Index | p. 187 |
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Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, and is the author of, among other books, Routine Politics and Collective Violence in Argentina.
Debora Alejandra Swistun received her BA in Anthropology from the University of La Plata, Argentina.
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