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Flammable : environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown /

Auyero, Javier.

Flammable : environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown / Javier Auyero and Dâebora Alejandra Swistun. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - 188 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-186) and index.

Villas del Riachuelo : Life amidst hazards, garbage, and poison -- The compound and the neighborhood -- Toxic wor(l)ds -- The (confused and mistaken) categories of the dominated -- Exposed waiting -- Collective disbelief in joint action -- The social production of toxic uncertainty -- Conclusions : ethnography and environmental suffering.

ISBN: 9780195372946 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0195372948 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780195372939 (pbk. : alk. paper) 019537293X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2008043342

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA932837 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015102976 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slums--Argentina--Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
Poor--Argentina--Buenos Aires.
Hazardous wastes--Argentina--Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
Pobreza--Argentina.
Barrios--Buenos Aires (Argentina)

LC Class. No.: HV 4070 / A943f 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 363.738/42098212