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Author Auyero, Javier.

Title Patients of the state : the politics of waiting in Argentina / Javier Auyero
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages : illustrations
Contents The time of the denizens -- Urban relegation and forms of regulating poverty -- Poor people's waiting -- The welfare office -- Periculum in mora : flammable revisited
Summary This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Poor -- Services for -- Argentina
Poor -- Government policy -- Argentina
Poverty -- Argentina
Marginality, Social -- Argentina
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Marginality, Social
Poor -- Government policy
Poor -- Services for
Poverty
Armut
Sozialwesen
Wartezeit
Argentina
Argentinien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822395287
0822395282
1280487267
9781280487262
9786613582492
6613582492