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Informationen zum Autor Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power and a co-author of Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. His books Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition and Poor People’s Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita are both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Tempography: Waiting Now and Then 1 1. The Time of the Denizens 23 2. Urban Relegation and Forms of Regulation Poverty 36 3. Poor People's Waiting: Speeding Up Time, but Still Waiting 64 4. The Welfare Office 92 5. Periculum in Mora: Flammable Revisited 128 Conclusion 153 Epilogue 162 Methodological Appendix 165 Notes 169 Works Cited 175 Index 191...
