Flammable
Subtitle: environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown
By: Javier Auyero and Débora Alejandra Swistun.
Contributors: Swistun, Débora Alejandra.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780195372946; 9780195372939
Subjects: Slums -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area; Poor -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires; Hazardous wastes -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
Description: "Surrounded by a large petrochemical compound, a polluted river, a hazardous waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, Flammable suffers from rampant contamination of its soil, air, and water. Strikingly, the nearly five thousand sickened and frail inhabitants doubt or even deny the harmful impact of pollution on their lives. Why do they fail to understand what is objectively a clear and present danger? Drawing upon archival research and over two years of fieldwork, Javier Auyero and Flammable resident Débora Alejandra Swistun explore the lived experiences of environmental suffering."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Villas del Riachuelo. Life amidst hazards, garbage, and poison; title: The compound and the neighborhood; title: Toxic wor(l)ds; title: The (confused and mistaken) categories of the dominated; title: Exposed waiting; title: Collective disbelief in joint action; title: The social production of toxic uncertainty; title: Conclusions : ethnography and environmental suffering.