Portraits of Persistence
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Portraits of Persistence

Inequality and Hope in Latin America

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Portraits of Persistence

Inequality and Hope in Latin America

About this book

Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.

Each chapter of Portraits of Persistence, a project of the University of Texas Urban Ethnography Lab, offers an intimate portrait of one or two individual lives. The subjects are a diverse group of individuals from across the continent: grassroots activists and political brokers, private security entrepreneurs, female drug dealers, shantytown dwellers, and rural farmers, as well as migrants finding routes into and out of the region. Through these accounts, the writers explore issues that are common throughout today's world: precarious work situations, gender oppression, housing displacement, experiences navigating the bureaucracy for asylum seekers, state violence, environmental devastation, and access to good and affordable health care. Carefully situating these experiences within the sociohistorical context of their specific local regions or countries, editor Javier Auyero and his colleagues consider how people make sense of the paths their lives have taken, the triumphs and hardships they have experienced, and the aspirations they hold for the future. Ultimately, these twelve compelling profiles offer unique and personal windows into the region's complex and multilayered reality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. Soraya: La Reina del Sur in Nicaragua
  8. Chapter 2. MaĂ­ra: Mothering in the Shadow of State Violence
  9. Chapter 3. Rodrigo: “Many Secrets, Nothing to Hide”—Security Entrepreneurship in Mexico City
  10. Chapter 4. Fabio and Angélica: The Resistance of Staying Put
  11. Chapter 5. Doris Huaiquian: Newen, Tenacity of Spirit
  12. Chapter 6. Aurelia: Displacement, Toxicity, and the Struggle for Home
  13. Chapter 7. Hamid: A Life Deferred in Brazil
  14. Chapter 8. María: Obligated by Circumstances—From Temporary to Precariously Permanent in the United States
  15. Chapter 9. Ezequiel: A Laburante in Argentina’s Relegated Neighborhoods
  16. Chapter 10. Nelson and Celia: Feeling Potholes and Debt in the Bones
  17. Chapter 11. Big Love: A Political Broker at Work
  18. Chapter 12. Alberto: Service Work and Social Change in Argentina
  19. Afterword
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Contributors
  22. Index