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2001

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01 janvier 2001

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9780822380047

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English

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"Political clientelism" is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor People's Politics to analyze the political practices of the Peronist Party among shantytown dwellers in contemporary Argentina.Looking closely at the slum-dwellers' informal problem-solving networks, which are necessary for material survival, and the different meanings of Peronism within these networks, Auyero presents the first ethnography of urban clientelism ever carried out in Argentina. Revealing a deep familiarity with the lives of the urban poor in Villa Paraiso, a stigmatized and destitute shantytown of Buenos Aires, Auyero demonstrates the ways in which local politicians present their vital favors to the poor and how the poor perceive and evaluate these favors. Having penetrated the networks, he describes how they are structured, what is traded, and the particular way in which women facilitate these transactions. Moreover, Auyero proposes that the act of granting favors or giving food in return for votes gives the politicians' acts a performative and symbolic meaning that flavors the relation between problem-solver and problem-holder, while also creating quite different versions of contemporary Peronism. Along the way, Auyero is careful to situate the emergence and consolidation of clientelism in historic, cultural, and economic contexts.Poor People's Politics reexamines the relationship between politics and the destitute in Latin America, showing how deeply embedded politics are in the lives of those who do not mobilize in the usual sense of the word but who are far from passive. It will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars of Latin American studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and cultural studies.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

01 janvier 2001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822380047

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Poor People’s Politics

Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita

D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

Javier Auyero

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Who Is Who in the Peronist Network

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Introduction: The Day of the Rally Complaining about T-shirts on Perón’s Birthday

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1. ‘‘They Were Mostly Poor People’’ Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Buenos Aires

2. ‘‘Most of Them Were Comingfrom Villa Paraíso’’ History and Lived Experiences of Shantytown Dwellers

3. ‘‘They Knew Matilde’’ The Problem-Solving Network

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4. ‘‘We Will Fight Forever, We Are Peronists’’ Eva Perón as a Public Performance 

5. The ‘‘Clientelist’’ Viewpoint How Shantytown Dwellers Perceive and Evaluate Political Clientelism 

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6. ‘‘They Were All Peronists’’ The Remnants of the Populist Heresy

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Conclusions Problem Solving through Political Mediation as a Structure of Feeling 

Epilogue Last Rally

Notes

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Bibliography

Index

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Acknowledgments

‘‘My desk had become a sanctuary, and as long as I continued to sit there, struggling to ﬁnd the next word, nothing could touch me anymore. . . . For the ﬁrst time in all the years I had been writing, I felt as though I had caught ﬁre. I couldn’t tell if the book was good or bad, but that no longer seemed important. I had stopped questioning myself. I was doing what I had to do, and I was doing it in the only way that was possible for me. Everything else followed from that. It wasn’t that I began to believe in myself so much as that I was inhabited by a sublime indiﬀerence. I had become interchangeable with my work, and I accepted that work on its own terms now, understanding that nothing could relieve me of the desire to do it. This was the bedrock epiphany, the illumination in which doubt gradually dissolved. Even if my life fell apart, there would still be something to live for’’ (Auster , ). While I was working on the doctoral dissertation on which this book is based, I came across these beautiful lines written by Paul Auster inLeviathan.They nicely en-capsulate theeconomy of feelingsthrough which I traveled while writing this work: a mix of anxiety and pleasure, a feeling of overcoming obstacles and accomplishing what I struggled for during the last three years. At the same time, those lines misrepresent theeconomy of eﬀortthat contributed to my dissertation and, later, to this book. This is not the product of a lone writer, working in isolation. On the contrary, and para-phrasing Auster, I have to admit that, while I ‘‘caught ﬁre’’ writing this

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