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In the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu¿s The Weight of the World, an award-winning sociologist and his students explore the lives of people working at the bottom of the social order in one of Americäs most economically segregated cities.
Sommario
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Know Them Well (Javier Auyero)
- 1. Austin, Texas, in Sociohistorical Context (Maggie Tate)
- 2. Santos: The Gold Hunter (Jacinto Cuvi)
- 3. Clarissa: “A Woman Who Fell on Hard Times” (Kristine Kilanski)
- 4. Inés: Discipline, Surveillance, and Mothering in the Margins (Jessica Dunning-Lozano)
- 5. Chip: The Cost(s) of Chasing the American Dream (Eric Enrique Borja)
- 6. Raven: “The Difference between a Cocktail Waitress and a Stripper? Two Weeks” (Caitlyn Collins)
- 7. Kumar: Driving in the Nighttime (Katherine Jensen)
- 8. Ethan: A Product of the Service Industry (Katherine Sobering)
- 9. Keith: A Musician at the Margins (Amias Maldonado)
- 10. Xiomara: Working toward Home (Jennifer Scott)
- 11. Ella: Fighting to Save a Few (Pamela Neumann)
- 12. Manuel: The Luxury of Defending Yourself (Marcos Pérez)
- Afterword: Plumbing the Social Underbelly of the Dual City (Loïc Wacquant)
Info autore
JAVIER AUYEROis the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Urban Ethnography Lab. He is the author of five previous books, including the award-winning
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (with Débora Swistun).
Riassunto
In the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu’s The Weight of the World, an award-winning sociologist and his students explore the lives of people working at the bottom of the social order in one of America’s most economically segregated cities.
