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Javier Auyero

Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. His most recent book, Patients of the State, was recently published by Duke University Press. Together with anthropologist Débora Swistun, he published Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (Oxford University Press, 2009). icon

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“Every great city,” wrote Friedrich Engels, in The Condition of the Working Class in England, “has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. True, poverty often dwells in hidden ...

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