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09 avril 2003

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9780822384366

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English

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Contentious Lives examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered, individually and collectively, by those who participate in them. Javier Auyero focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina (the two-day protest in the northwestern city of Santiago del Estero in 1993 and the six-day road blockade in the southern oil towns of Cutral-co and Plaza Huincul in 1996) and the roles of the protests in their lives. Laura was the spokesperson of the picketers in Cutral-co and Plaza Huincul; Nana was an activist in the 1993 protests. In addition to exploring the effects of these episodes on their lives, Auyero considers how each woman's experiences shaped what she said and did during the uprisings, and later, the ways she recalled the events. While the protests were responses to the consequences of political corruption and structural adjustment policies, they were also, as Nana's and Laura's stories reveal, quests for recognition, respect, and dignity.Auyero reconstructs Nana's and Laura's biographies through oral histories and diaries. Drawing on interviews with many other protesters, newspaper articles, judicial records, government reports, and video footage, he provides sociological and historical context for their stories. The women's accounts reveal the frustrations of lives overwhelmed by gender domination, the deprivations brought about by hyper-unemployment and the withering of the welfare component of the state, and the achievements and costs of collective action. Balancing attention to large-scale political and economic processes with acknowledgment of the plurality of meanings emanating from personal experiences, Contentious Lives is an insightful, penetrating, and timely contribution to discussions of popular resistance and the combined effects of globalization, neoliberal economic policies, and political corruption in Argentina and elsewhere.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

09 avril 2003

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822384366

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Contentious Lives

A book in the series

Latin America Otherwise:

Languages, Empires, Nations

Series editors:

Walter D. Mignolo,

Duke University

Irene Silverblatt,

Duke University

Sonia Saldívar-Hull,

University of California

at Los Angeles

Contentious Lives

Two Argentine Women,

Two Protests, and the

Quest for Recognition

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Duke University Press

Durham & London 

Printed in the United States

of America on acid-free paper 

Typeset in Cycles by Tseng

Information Systems, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-

in-Publication Data appear on

the last printed page of this book.

Portions of ‘‘The Queen of the

Riot’’ were originally published

inTheory and Societyand appear

in revised form in this volume

by permission.

A mi amigo Lucas Rubinich,

with whom I’ve been

enjoying friendship and

the craft of sociology

for more than a decade.

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Contents

About the Series - ix Acknowledgments - xi Introduction: On the Intersection of Individual and Collective Biographies and Protest - 

-P A R T I . T H E P I C K E T E R 15 The Day before the Pueblada: A Town on the Edge -  Laura’s Life: ‘‘How Did I Fall So Far?’’ -  Being-in-the-Road: Insurgent Identities -  After the Road: Contentious Legacies - 

-P A R T I I . T H E Q U E E N O F T H E R I O T 101 The Lived : The Coming and Making of the Explosion -  The Lived Sixteenth: The Feast and the Remains of the Riot -  Nana’s Life: ‘‘Thirty-six Years of Crap’’ -  Contested Memories -  Conclusions: Ethnography and Recognition - 

Appendix. On Fieldwork, Theory, and the Question of Biography -  Notes -  References -  Index - 

About the Series

Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a critical series. It aims to explore the emergence and consequences of concepts used to deﬁne ‘‘Latin America’’ while at the same time exploring the broad interplay of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped Latin American worlds. Latin America, at the crossroads of competing imperial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocul-tural and geopolitical entity since the nineteenth century. This series provides a starting point to redeﬁne Latin America as a conﬁguration of political, linguistic, cultural, and economic intersections that demands a continuous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history, and of the ongoing process of globalization and the relocation of people and cul-tures that have characterized Latin America’s experience.Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a forum that confronts estab-lished geocultural constructions, that rethinks area studies and disci-plinary boundaries, that assesses convictions of the academy and of pub-lic policy, and that, correspondingly, demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny. In the s Argentina moved rapidly to a level of economic and po-litical crisis that exploded at the beginning of the twenty-ﬁrst century. A country that was at the forefront of ideas and progress in Latin America became one of the most visible victims of the neoliberal economy and the’s global political designs. The crisis and the shock in which the Argentinean population found itself is generating new forms of social awareness and the emergence of a new political society. InContentious

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