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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 an analytic description of the origins, course, meanings, and outcomes of the December 2001 wave of lootings in Argentina.

Food riots --- Pillage --- Violence --- Political violence --- Peronism. --- Law enforcement --- Emeutes de la faim --- Violence politique --- Péronisme --- Lois --- Application --- Partido Peronista (Argentina) --- Enforcement of law --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Justicialism --- Fascism --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Looting --- Plundering --- Sack (Pillage) --- Military offenses --- Robbery --- War crimes --- Bread riots --- Riots --- Peronist Party (Argentina) --- PP --- Policing --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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"Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have shifted analysing the state's neglect and abandonment to documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence. Most of this research has focused on the overt actions and inactions. Yet we know very little about the covert world of state action that is hidden from public view. The Ambivalent State offers an unprecedented look into the clandestine relationships between cops and drug dealers in Argentina. Drawing on a unique combination of ethnographic research and documentary evidence, including hundreds of pages of wiretapped phone conversations, sociologists Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering analyse the inner-workings of "police-criminal collusion" and its connections to drug markets and the depacification of daily life. Through rich descriptions of the actual clandestine interactions between drug dealers and police, they argue that an up-close examination of covert state action exposes the workings of an "ambivalent state": one that enforces the rule of law while at the same time and in the same place functions as a partner to what it defines as criminal behaviour. The Ambivalent State develops a political sociology of violence that focuses not only on takes place in police stations, criminal courts, and poor neighbourhoods, but also the clandestine actions and interactions of police agents, judges, and politicians that structure daily life at the urban margins. By way of empirical demonstration, the book makes an urgent call for scholars to incorporate clandestine action into explanations of the state. Collusion, policing, the state, crime, violence, urban marginality, legal cynicism, Argentina, ethnography"-- Provided by publisher.

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The use of ethnographic research - social research based on the observation of individuals or institutions where the researcher becomes part of the group or very close to the group to better understand their actions - is becoming more and more of a prevalent methodology within sociology. As ethnography gains prominence within the discipline its focus, theoretical underpinnings and narrative styles are also expanding to the yet-unexamined worlds and institutions of society. Politics, political institutions, and those working in politics (state officials, politicians and activists) have so far missed the lens of the ethnographer. As a group, politicians and those in politics can be found in every corner of the world. While political systems and politicians are by no means the same in every country, what brings these people together to be part of the political process? Ethnography is uniquely equipped to look microscopically at the foundations of political institutions and their attendant set of practices, just as it is ideally suited to explain why political actors behave the way they do and to identify the causes, processes and outcomes that are part and parcel of political life. The volume, based on a special issue of Qualitative Sociology has a two-fold purpose: to bring politics into the ethnographic literature and of ethnography in studies of politics. The case studies included are based on the research of ethnographers studying the various level of politics in Brazil, Japan, El Salvador, Bosnia, the Philippines, India and the United States. It will be of interest to those in the sociology of politics, political science and those looking for ethnographic research on a global level.

Political anthropology. --- Ethnology --- Political aspects. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Political science --- Anthropological aspects --- Political science. --- Anthropology. --- Political Science. --- Sociology, general. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Sociology. --- Social theory --- Primitive societies

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In this collaborative ethnography, Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun vividly describe everyday life in Flammable and depict how this ongoing, slow-motion environmental disaster is experienced and understood by its residents.

Slums --- Poor --- Hazardous wastes --- Hazardous waste disposal --- Poisonous wastes --- Toxic waste disposal --- Toxic waste release --- Toxic wastes --- Waste disposal --- Wastes, Hazardous --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous substances --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Pollution --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Slum clearance --- Housing --- Economic conditions --- Déchets dangereux --- Taudis --- Pauvres