{"product_id":"poor-peoples-politics-9780822326212","title":"Poor Peoples Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Political clientelism\" is a term used to characterise the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favours. This title presents the ethnography of urban clientelism ever carried out in Argentina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At the level of most political science literature on urban poverty and clientelism, this work is genuinely pathbreaking. Combining the best of ‘thick description’ ethnography with a sense of more global processes at work in a society, Auyero uses the most up-to-date analytical frameworks to interrogate an object of study that has rarely—if ever—been so addressed. This is a book to be reckoned with over the next few years and beyond.”—Daniel James, author of \u003ci\u003eDoña María’s Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Other people write about patronage politics as a form of organization, as a scourge to eradicate, or as a necessary evil on the way to full democracy. Javier Auyero writes about it as a raucous, improvised, crucial way of surviving poverty and inequality. Reporting perceptive first-hand observations in playful, energetic prose, Auyero illuminates poor people’s politics in Argentina and elsewhere.”—Charles Tilly, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Who Is Who in the Peronist Network xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Day of the Rally \u003cbr\u003e Complaining about T-shirts on Peron's Birthday 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"They Were Mostly Poor People\" \u003cbr\u003e Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Buenos Aires 29\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Most of Them Were Coming from Villa Paraiso\" \u003cbr\u003e History and Lived Experiences of Shantytown Dwellers 45\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"They Knew Matilde\" \u003cbr\u003e The Problem-Solving Network 80\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"We Will Fight Forever, We Are Peronists\" \u003cbr\u003e Eva Peron as a Public Performance 119\u003cbr\u003e 5. The \"Clientelist\" Viewpoint \u003cbr\u003e How Shantytown Dwellers Perceive and Evaluate Political Clientelism 152\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"They Were All Peronists\" \u003cbr\u003e The Remnants of the Populist Heresy 182\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions \u003cbr\u003e Problem Solving through Political Mediation as a Structure of Feeling 205\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue \u003cbr\u003e Last Rally 215\u003cbr\u003e Notes 219\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 237\u003cbr\u003e Index 255","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026580311,"sku":"9780822326212","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326212.jpg?v=1730494288","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poor-peoples-politics-9780822326212","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}