Javier Auyero

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology. Sociology Department, University of Texas at Austin.

Auyero@austin.utexas.edu

My main areas of research, writing, and teaching are urban poverty and marginality, collective action and violence, and political ethnography.

C Romina Franceschin

BOOKS

NEW BOOK! Patients of the State. The Politics of Waiting in Argentina. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Read the Introduction here.

With Debora Swistun. Flammable. Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

[Charles Tilly Best Book Award, American Sociological Association (Collective Behavior/Social Movements Section), 2010; Robert E. Park Best Book Award, American Sociological Association (Urban Sociology/Community Section), 2010; Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2010; Best Book Award Association for Humanist Sociology, 2009]

With Debora Swistun. Inflamable. Estudio del Sufrimiento Ambiental. Buenos Aires: Paidos, 2008.

Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina. The Gray Zone of State Power. New York: Cambridge, 2007.

[American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, 2008]

Contentious Lives. Two Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

Poor People's Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

[New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Award, 2001]

EDITED VOLUMES

With Lauren Joseph and Matthew Mahler (editors). New Perspectives in Political Ethnography. New York: Springer, 2008.

With Rodrigo Hobert (editors). Acción e Interpretación en la Sociología Cualitativa Norteamericana. Quito-Buenos Aires: FLACSO-EPC, 2011. (versión completa en attachment)

ARTICLES

In progress and forthcoming

"Violence and the State at the Urban Margins." [see attachment below]
"Beyond Retaliation. Chains of Violence at the Urban Margins." [see attachment below]
"Poor People’s Lives and Politics: The things a political ethnographer knows (and doesn’t know) after 15 years of fieldwork." Forthcoming in New Perspectives on Turkey, 46:95-127. [see attachment below] Portuguese translation: "Vidas e política das pessoas pobres - as coisas que um etnógrafo político sabe (e nao sabe) após 15 anos de trabalho de campo." In Sociologias 13 (28): 126-64.
With Pablo Lapegna. "Democratic Processes, Patronage Politics, and Contentious Collective Action in El Alto, Bolivia." Forthcoming in Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics. Tina Hilgers (editor). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
"Toxic Waiting. Flammable Shantytown Revisited." Forthcoming in Cities from Scratch: The Informal City in Latin America. Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, and Javier Auyero (editors). Duke University Press, 2012. [see attachment below]
With Agustín Burbano de Lara. "In Harm's Way at the Urban Margins." Forthcoming in Ethnography, 2012. [see attachment below]
"Poor People's Politics Turn Ten." [see attachment below]

2011

"Researching the Urban Margins: What Can the United States Learn from Latin America and Vice Versa?" City and Community 10(4):431-36. [see attachment below]

With Matthew Mahler. "Relations Occultes et Fondaments de la Violence Collective." Politix 93: 115-39 [see attachment below]

With Matthew Mahler. "The Makings of Collective Violence." In Gabriela Polit-Dueñas and María Helena Rueda (editors), Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America. Palgrave.

"Patients of the State. An Ethnographic Account of Poor People's Waiting." Latin American Research Review 46 (1):5-29 [see attachment below]

2010

"Visible Fists, Clandestine Kicks, and Invisible Elbows. Three Forms of Regulating Neoliberal Poverty." European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 89:5-26 [see attachment below]

"Chuck and Pierre at the Welfare Office." Sociological Forum 25(4):851-60.[see attachment below]

"Children at Toxic Risk." [see attachment below]

2008

With Debora Swistun “The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty,” American Sociological Review 73(3): 357-379.

2007

With Timothy Moran “The Dynamics of Collective Violence: Dissecting Food Riots in Contemporary Argentina,” Social Forces. 85 (3): 1341-1367.

With Debora Swistun “Confused because Exposed. Towards an Ethnography of Environmental Suffering,” Ethnography 8(2):123-144.

With Debora Swistun “Amidst Garbage and Poison,” Contexts 6(2):46-51.

2006

“L’Espace des luttes,” Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 160:122-132.

“The Political Makings of the 2001 Lootings in Argentina,” Journal of Latin American Studies 38:1-25

2004-1999 (see CV attached below)

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

"Cadenas que matan." Página12, April 25, 2012.

"Deseos urgentes." Página12, March 19, 2012.

"La realidad que cuenta un grafiti." Revista Ñ, January 6, 2012.

"Desde el barro." Revista Debate, November 12, 2011.

"Los sectores populares viven..." La Nación, October 30, 2011.

"Crecer a la sombra de la prisión." Página12, May 28, 2011.

"Foucault en el Conurbano." Pagina12, Enero 6, 2011.

"Lo de Soldati continua lo que hizo la UCEP." Tiempo Argentino, Diciembre 19, 2010.

SYMPOSIUM on "La Zona Gris." Revista Pensar 3/4. Rosario, Argentina, 2009.

"La Gran Poncio Pilatos." Página12, June 10, 2009.

“Los saqueos de 2001 no fueron una conspiración.” Página12, November 25, 2007.

“En los estudios de pobreza, el medio ambiente está rezagado.” Página12, July 24, 2006.

“Buscan cuestionar los planes.” Página12, September 13, 2005.

"El oficio de la etnografía política." ICONOS, May, 2005.

"Los límites reales del clientelismo." Página12, August 8, 2004.

"Elogio del piquete." Página12, November 27, 2003

"Clientelismo: un etnógrafo en la villa." Clarín, August 26, 2001.

Villa Inflamable and the Petrochemical Compound (Dock Sud, Buenos Aires). Photo by JA. 2005.

Villa Inflamable, 2005. Photo by DS.

Villa Inflamable, 2010. Photo by JA.

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