The Hyper-Shantytown

Neo-Liberal Violence(s) in the Argentine Slum

Bibliographic Data

ID2402136
AuthorsJ Auyero (0000-0001-5387-2812, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA and Centro de Estudios en Cultura y Política, Fundación del Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume1
Issue1
Pages93-116
Publication date2000-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14661380022230651
OpenAlexW2114106332
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited16

Ethnographic observation, archival data, surveys and newspaper reports are combined to depict the social transformation of Argentine shantytowns during the last two decades, focusing on three different kinds of violence that impact the lives and social strategies of their residents: daily interpersonal violence, intermittent state repression, and the structural violence of mass unemployment. These violences are interrelated expressions of the broader socio-economic and institutional changes that have swept Argentina as the country adopted and implemented neo-liberal economic policies. As a consequence of the withering away of the wage-labor economy, the official indifference of the state, and the breakdown of the organizational fabric of these territories, shantytowns run the risk of becoming functionally severed from the larger society

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Unemployment · Argentine historical studies · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Latin American Urban Studies

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