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Patients of the State - The Politics of Waiting in Argentina (Hardcover, New)
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Patients of the State - The Politics of Waiting in Argentina (Hardcover, New)
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Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended
waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative
services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the
waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the
line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal
aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in
a polluted shantytown on the capital's outskirts, while waiting to
be allocated better housing. Scrutinizing the mundane interactions
between the poor and the state, as well as underprivileged people's
confusion and uncertainty about the administrative processes that
affect them, Javier Auyero argues that while waiting, the poor
learn the opposite of citizenship. They learn to be patients of the
state. They absorb the message that they should be patient and keep
waiting, because there is nothing else that they can do. Drawing
attention to a significant everyday dynamic that has received
little scholarly attention until now, Auyero considers not only how
the poor experience these lengthy waits but also how making poor
people wait works as a strategy of state control.
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