Autor: Javier Auyero

The use of ethnographic research – social research based on the observation of individuals or institutions where the researcher becomes part of the group or very close to the group to better understa …

A harrowing look at violence among Argentina’s urban poor Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides—often …

In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen’s public safety–from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recu …

In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen’s public safety–from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recu …

Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries, a hazardous and largely unsupervised wast …

Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries, a hazardous and largely unsupervised wast …

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’La policía no hace nada. La policía es toda transa. Agarran a un narco a mitad de cuadra y lo sueltan en la esquina’. 'Quiero 3000 pesos o te tiro abajo el kiosco’. 'La policía bardea a los pibes. T …

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. Y …

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. Y …

¿Cómo es vivir en los márgenes? ¿Qué hacen quienes menos tienen para asegurarse una vivienda, alimentos, ropa? ¿Cómo lidian con la violencia –una amenaza literal a su sobrevivencia– que se vuelve pro …

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 …