Buch
Monografie
Contentious lives : two Argentine women, two protests, and the quest for recognition
Verfasst von:
Auyero, Javier
Durham, NC [u. a.]:
Duke Univ. Press
,
2006
,
230 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Auyero, Javier |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Latin America otherwise
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| Ausgabe: | 2. print. |
| Jahr: | 2006 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0822331284 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The book 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. While the protests were responses to the consequences of political corruption and structural adjustment policies, they were also, as Nanas and Lauras stories reveal, quests for recognition, respect, and dignity. Auyero reconstructs Nanas and Lauras 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 womens accounts reveal the frustrations of lives overwhelmed by gender domination, the deprivations brought about by unemployment and the withering of the welfare component of the state, and the achievements and costs of collective action. "Contentious Lives" is a 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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