Author: Auyero Javier Auyero

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America’s urban poor. Until …

"Political clientelism" is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for polit …

Contentious Lives examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered, individually and collectively, by those who participate in them. Javier Auyero focuses on the roles of two young w …

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 wait …

Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.Each chapter of Portraits of Persistence, a project of the University of Texas Urban Ethnography Lab, offers an intimate port …