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Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power

By Javier Auyero

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521872367, 9780521872362
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1668874 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Edition
1st
Pages
210\210
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in Argentina in December 2001. Thirty-four people were reported dead and hundreds were injured. Among the looting crowds, activists from the Peronist party (the main political party in the country) were quite prominent. During the lootings, police officers were conspicuously absent - particularly when small stores were sacked. Through a combination of archival research, statistical analysis, multi-sited fieldwork, and taking heed of the perspective of contentious politics, this book provides the first available analytic description of the origins, course, meanings, and outcomes of the December 2001 wave of lootings in Argentina.

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