Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas–Austin and Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Universidad del País Vasco, Spain. A 2024 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar, Javier writes and teaches about urban poverty, ethnography, and collective violence. He is the author of Poor People’s Politics, Contentious Lives, Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina, and Patients of the State. He is also the co-author, with Débora Swistun, of Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown; In Harm’s Way: Interpersonal Violence at the Urban Margins (with Fernanda Berti); and The Ambivalent State (with Katherine Sobering). He edited Invisible in Austin and, recently, Portraits of Persistence (both with University of Texas Press). He is the founder of the Urban Ethnography Lab at UT Austin.
Javier Auyero
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What Works: Lessons on Fighting Oppression and Building Power From Across the Globe
When, how, and why does collective organizing achieve positive effects for those engaging in this difficult, and oftentimes risky, endeavor?
Lives at the Urban Margins
“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 alleys close to the palaces of the rich; but, in general, a separate territory has been assigned to it, where, removed from the […]
