Contentious Lives : Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition PDF
by Auyero Javier Auyero
Part of the Latin America Otherwise series
Description
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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- Format:PDF
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:09/04/2003
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- ISBN:9780822384366
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:09/04/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822384366