{"product_id":"patients-of-the-state-9780822352334","title":"Patients of the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“...this [book] is a careful and beautifully written ethnographic\u003cbr\u003einvestigation of the contours of ordinary people’s lives under\u003cbr\u003eneoliberalism in Argentina.” - Gianpaolo Baiocchi, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePatients of the State\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful and long-overdue exploration of how the worst Latin American welfare programs reinforce powerlessness and subcitizenship even as they sporadically relieve economic misery. Vividly describing the phenomenally cavalier ways in which the governmental agencies of Buenos Aires waste poor people’s time and resources, Javier Auyero calls attention to the insidious violence of systems that sap political initiative and hobble complex and delicate urban survival strategies. With this study, he has once again opened new pathways for the study of contemporary Latin American poverty.”—\u003cb\u003eBrodwyn Fischer\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this brilliant, insightful, and sensitive investigation, Javier Auyero brings careful ethnographic research to bear on the routine temporal experiences of people who seek help and social services from the state. In doing so, he shows us how the state constructs political dominance through the control of its citizens’ time and temporal experience. By making the urban poor wait for whatever they need, the state creates subordination and political resignation. \u003ci\u003ePatients of the State\u003c\/i\u003e will have a major impact on scholarly and public discourse; it helps us see what is happening to millions of people around the world.”—\u003cb\u003eMichael G. Flaherty\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePatients of the State\u003c\/i\u003e shines in providing empiricalevidence in support of the importance of waiting for understanding the ways in which power and domination are played out in practice in the relations between the urban poor and the front-line bureaucrats of the state.... [It] shines in providing empirical in support of the importance of waiting for understanding the ways in which power and domination are played out in practice in the relations between the urban poor and the front-line bureaucrats of the state.\"  -- Marcela López Levy * Journal of Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Tempography: Waiting Now and Then 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Time of the Denizens 23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Urban Relegation and Forms of Regulation Poverty 36\u003cbr\u003e 3. Poor People's Waiting: Speeding Up Time, but Still Waiting 64\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Welfare Office 92\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003ePericulum in Mora\u003c\/i\u003e: Flammable Revisited 128\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 153\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 162\u003cbr\u003e Methodological Appendix 165\u003cbr\u003e Notes 169\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 175\u003cbr\u003e Index 191","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406070358359,"sku":"9780822352334","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822352334.jpg?v=1730494424","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/patients-of-the-state-9780822352334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}