Auyero Poor People's Politics

Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8004-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Examines how Argentina's urban poor use political networks and informal webs of reciprocal help to solve their everyday survival needs

Autoren/Hrsg.

Auyero, Javier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Who Is Who in the Peronist Network xiii

Introduction: The Day of the Rally

Complaining about T-shirts on Peron's Birthday 1

1. "They Were Mostly Poor People"

Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Buenos Aires 29

2. "Most of Them Were Coming from Villa Paraiso"

History and Lived Experiences of Shantytown Dwellers 45

3. "They Knew Matilde"

The Problem-Solving Network 80

4. "We Will Fight Forever, We Are Peronists"

Eva Peron as a Public Performance 119

5. The "Clientelist" Viewpoint

How Shantytown Dwellers Perceive and Evaluate Political Clientelism 152

6. "They Were All Peronists"

The Remnants of the Populist Heresy 182

Conclusions

Problem Solving through Political Mediation as a Structure of Feeling 205

Epilogue

Last Rally 215

Notes 219

Bibliography 237

Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin.