Javier Auyero

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Invisible in Austin

Life and Labor in an American City

Edited by Javier Auyero; Afterword by Loïc Wacquant
University of Texas Press

In the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu’s The Weight of the World, an award-winning sociologist and his students explore the lives of people working at the bottom of the social order in one of America’s most economically segregated cities.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Unsettled/Desasosiego

Children in a World of Gangs/Los niños en un mundo de las pandillas

By Donna De Cesare; Introduction by Fred Ritchin; Translated by Javier Auyero
University of Texas Press

Culminating thirty years of photographing gang members and their families, award-winning photojournalist Donna De Cesare uncovers the effects of decades of war and gang violence on the lives of youths in Central America and in refugee communities in the U

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Portraits of Persistence

Inequality and Hope in Latin America

Edited by Javier Auyero
University of Texas Press

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

  • Copyright year: 2024
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