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Patients of the State
Javier Auyero
其他書名
The Politics of Waiting in Argentina
出版
Duke University Press
, 2012-05-04
主題
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
History / Latin America / South America
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Political Science / Public Policy / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
ISBN
9780822352334
0822352338
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6EHbfnTBuDAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Patients of the State
is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a polluted shantytown on the capital’s outskirts, while waiting to be allocated better housing. Scrutinizing the mundane interactions between the poor and the state, as well as underprivileged people’s confusion and uncertainty about the administrative processes that affect them, Javier Auyero argues that while waiting, the poor learn the opposite of citizenship. They learn to be patients of the state. They absorb the message that they should be patient and keep waiting, because there is nothing else that they can do. Drawing attention to a significant everyday dynamic that has received little scholarly attention until now, Auyero considers not only how the poor experience these lengthy waits but also how making poor people wait works as a strategy of state control.