Flammable : environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown /

Flammable : environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Auyero, Javier.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Slums -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. Poor -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires. Hazardous wastes -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. Hazardous wastes. Poor. Slums. Argentina -- Buenos Aires. Argentina -- Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11195150

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Other authors / contributors:	Swistun, Débora Alejandra.
ISBN:	9780199706686 0199706689 1282053868 9781282053861 9780195372946 0195372948 9780195372939 019537293X 9786612053863 6612053860
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 20, 2021).
Summary:	Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries, a hazardous and largely unsupervised waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, Flammable's soil, air, and water are contaminated with lead, chromium, benzene, and other chemicals. So are its nearly five thousand sickened and frail inhabitants. How do poor people make sense of and cope with toxic pollution? Why do they fail to understand what is objectively a clear and present danger? How are perceptions and misperceptions shared wit.
Other form:	Print version: Auyero, Javier. Flammable. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009 9780195372946 0195372948
Standard no.:	9786612053863

Table of Contents:

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.