Flammable : environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Javier Auyero; Débora Alejandra Swistun
- ناشر : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2009
- شابک / ISBN : 9780199706686
Description
Villas del Riachuelo : Life amidst hazards, garbage, and poison -- The compound and the neighborhood -- Toxic wor(l)ds -- The (confused and mistaken) categories of the dominated -- Exposed waiting -- Collective disbelief in joint action -- The social production of toxic uncertainty -- Conclusions : ethnography and environmental suffering.
In this collaborative ethnography, Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun-who was born and raised in the dreadfully polluted shantytown in Buenos Aires from which the book takes its name-vividly describe everyday life in Flammable and depict how this ongoing, slow-motion environmental disaster is experienced and understood by its residents
