Patients of the state

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This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.



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 waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a polluted shantytown on the capital’s outskirts, while waiting to be allocated better housing. Scrutinizing the mundane interactions between the poor and the state, as well as underprivileged people’s confusion and uncertainty about the administrative processes that affect them, Javier Auyero argues that while waiting, the poor learn the opposite of citizenship. They learn to be patients of the state. They absorb the message that they should be patient and keep waiting, because there is nothing else that they can do. Drawing attention to a significant everyday dynamic that has received little scholarly attention until now, Auyero considers not only how the poor experience these lengthy waits but also how making poor people wait works as a strategy of state control.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 mei 2012

Aantal pagina's: 196

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Javier Auyero

Hoofduitgeverij: Duke University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product hoogte: 13 mm

Product lengte: 216 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 13 mm

Verpakking lengte: 216 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 295 g

EAN: 9780822352334

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