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The Girl in the Pandemic
As seen in previous pandemics, girls and young women are particularly vulnerable as social issues such as homelessness, mental healthcare, access to education, and child labor are often exacerbated. The Girl in the Pandemic considers what academics, community activists, and those working in local, national, and global NGOs are learning about the lives of girls and young women during pandemics. Drawing from a range of responses during the pandemic including first person narratives, community ethnographies, and participatory action research, this collection offers a picture of how the COVID-19 pandemic played out in eight different countries.
Populists and the Pandemic
Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much public attention, as they denied the severity of the public health crisis, denigrated experts and data, looked for scapegoats, encouraged protests, questioned the legitimacy of liberal institutions, spread false information, and fueled conspiracies. But how widespread are those particular reactions? How much variation is there? What explains the variation that does exist? This volume considers these qu...
The Ambivalent State
Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence. Yet, we know very little about the covert world of state action that is hidden from public view. In The Ambivalent State, Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering offer an unprecedented look into the clandestine relationships between police agents and drug dealers in Argentina. Drawing on a unique combination of ethnographic fieldwork and documentary evidence, including hundreds of pages of wiretapped phone conversations, they analyze the inner-workings of police-criminal collusion, its connections to...
Pretérito imperfecto
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Socio-Political Dynamics within the Crisis of the Left
Has the left turn come to a definite end? What have been the legacies of the left turn and how can they be measured? Who are the key actors shaping the new ‘anti-populist’ discourse and in what sense are they different from the social movements supporting progressive governments? How do these forms of identification relate to the dominant forms of subjectivisation in a globalized neoliberal world? Does the development of a new socio-political dynamic in the region strengthen or undermine the struggles for equality, democracy and more cohesive societies? This collection studies the gestation of the crisis of the left turn consensus dominant in Argentina and Brazil for the past 15 years and the emerging socio-political dynamics developing in this particular context of change. The volume identifies the traditional and emerging actors which have been influential in the socio-political arena for the past six to ten years. It also traces major episodes of protests between 2011-2015 in Brazil and Argentina.
The People's Hotel
In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive economic crisis: businesses went bankrupt, unemployment spiked, and nearly half the population fell below the poverty line. In the midst of the crisis, Buenos Aires’s iconic twenty-story Hotel Bauen quietly closed its doors, forcing longtime hospitality workers out of their jobs. Rather than leaving the luxury hotel vacant, a group of former employees occupied the property and kept it open. In The People’s Hotel, Katherine Sobering recounts the history of the Hotel Bauen, detailing its transformation from a privately owned business into a worker cooperative—one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally. Combining ethnographic and archival research with her own experiences as a volunteer worker at the hotel, Sobering examines how the Bauen Cooperative grew and, against all odds, successfully kept the hotel open for nearly two decades. Highlighting successes and innovations alongside the many challenges that these workers faced, Sobering presents a vivid portrait of efforts to address inequality and reorganize work in a capitalist economy.
Squatter Life
In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofía Servián detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina’s urban poor rely on to survive. Blending three years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with personal narratives of Servián’s experience growing up and living in a squatter settlement, the authors examine how Argentina’s squatter communities contend with violence and secure necessities like food, land, and housing despite inadequate state support and protection. Auyero and Servián recount the bricolage of tactics these individuals employ to make ends meet, such as relying on highly exploitative jobs, patronage, and networks of reciprocal exchange that can involve illicit activities. Analyzing how these survival strategies intersect with class, gender, and political domination, the authors present a nuanced account of marginality in Argentinian squatter settlements while maintaining a deeply human portrait of survival and persistence.
Proletarian Lives
An ethnographic study of how people in one of Latin America's most notorious social movements became long-term activists.
De bobo, nada
El antiestatismo, con sus imágenes de instituciones vetustas y corruptas, se ha vuelto una consigna tan potente como lo fue la del Estado presente hasta hace unos años. La realidad de la Anses, la mayor caja de la administración pública y la mayor base de datos de la población argentina, va a contrapelo de esas narrativas de ineficacia y discrecionalidad. Ícono de la modernización de los noventa y de la reconstrucción posterior a la crisis de 2001, la Anses lleva adelante políticas públicas claves para la estabilidad democrática. De la AUH a las jubilaciones y moratorias, de los créditos Procrear a los bonos de emergencia, esta burocracia gigantesca muestra –más que bruscos ca...
Qué pudo y qué no pudo el Estado
En la Argentina, la pandemia de covid-19 agravó una situación ya de por sí dramática. ¿Cómo reaccionó el Estado frente a la emergencia? ¿Confirmó ese cliché arraigado de que tenemos un "Estado bobo que hace todo mal"? ¿No es hora ya de contar con un balance serio que evite las conclusiones rápidas o engañosas, y sobre todo que sirva para el futuro? Este libro evalúa exhaustivamente cómo funcionaron las políticas públicas en esos meses febriles y abre la oportunidad de preguntarnos qué aprendizajes pueden extraerse de una experiencia inédita. A partir de una investigación realizada en tiempo real en varias ciudades del país, representativas de la heterogeneidad federal, a...
