Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition

Author:   Javier Auyero
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   248
Publication Date:   09 April 2003
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Author:   Javier Auyero
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780822331155


ISBN 10:   0822331152
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   09 April 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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5. The Lived 1993: The Coming and Making of the Explosion 115 6. The Lived Sixteenth: The Feast and the Remains of the Riot 137 7. Nana's Life: Thirty-six Years of Crap 153 8. Contested Memories 172 Conclusions: Ethnography and Recognition 191 Appendix. On Fieldwork, Theory, and the Question of Biography 201 Notes 209 References 217 Index 229 About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: On the Intersection of Individual and Collective Biographies and Protest 1 Part I. The Picketer 15 1. The Day before the Pueblada: A Town on the Edge 29 2. Laura's Life: How Did I Fall So Far? 48 3. Being-in-the-Road: Insurgent Identities 60 4. After the Road: Contentious Legacies 89 Part II. The Queen of the Riot 101

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"""Contentious Lives dares to present the lives of two women who lived hard times but at a certain moment plunged into popular movements and then had to bear the consequences of their participation, to make sense of what they had done, and to fashion new relations with other people. The two women have entrusted Javier Auyero with stories few others would want to see in print: stories of suffering, indiscretion, indecision, bitterness, regret, and passion."" Charles Tilly, Columbia University ""Javier Auyero proves that you can go home again - and that with the proper experience elsewhere you can see more than you would have noticed if you had never left. Returning to his native Argentina as a sympathetic, well trained observer of political conflict, he shows us how intense personal lives and passionate political participation connect with each other. Auyero tells stories of Argentinian political and economic crises from an entirely fresh perspective."" Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University ""Contentious Lives is an act of recovery that succeeds in linking private experience to public acts, and in the process retrieves a social history which is as much about the struggle for justice as it is about the search for recognition.""--Jrnl of Latin American Studies, February 2005"


Contentious Lives dares to present the lives of two women who lived hard times but at a certain moment plunged into popular movements and then had to bear the consequences of their participation, to make sense of what they had done, and to fashion new relations with other people. The two women have entrusted Javier Auyero with stories few others would want to see in print: stories of suffering, indiscretion, indecision, bitterness, regret, and passion. Charles Tilly, Columbia University Javier Auyero proves that you can go home again - and that with the proper experience elsewhere you can see more than you would have noticed if you had never left. Returning to his native Argentina as a sympathetic, well trained observer of political conflict, he shows us how intense personal lives and passionate political participation connect with each other. Auyero tells stories of Argentinian political and economic crises from an entirely fresh perspective. Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University Contentious Lives is an act of recovery that succeeds in linking private experience to public acts, and in the process retrieves a social history which is as much about the struggle for justice as it is about the search for recognition. --Jrnl of Latin American Studies, February 2005


Javier Auyero proves that you can go home again-and that with the proper experience elsewhere you can see more than you would have noticed if you had never left. Returning to his native Argentina as a sympathetic, well trained observer of political conflict, he shows us how intense personal lives and passionate political participation connect with each other. Auyero tells stories of Argentinian political and economic crises from an entirely fresh perspective. -Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University Contentious Lives dares to present the lives of two women who lived hard times but at a certain moment plunged into popular movements and then had to bear the consequences of their participation, to make sense of what they had done, and to fashion new relations with other people. The two women have entrusted Javier Auyero with stories few others would want to see in print: stories of suffering, indiscretion, indecision, bitterness, regret, and passion. -Charles Tilly, Columbia University


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Javier Auyero is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita (Duke University Press), winner of the 2001 Best Book award from the New England Council of Latin American Studies (neclas) and a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award.

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