Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope in Latin America (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)
by: Javier Auyero (Author)
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Publication Date: 5 Mar. 2024
Language:English
Print Length:304 pages
ISBN-10:147732898X
ISBN-13:9781477328989
Book Description
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.
About the Author
Review Rigorously referenced, this is an essential title for collections dedicated to Hispanic and Latine interests. ― BooklistPortraits of Persistence is an invaluable addition to any discussion of Latin America, poverty, political instability, neoliberalism, gender, indigenous populations, and more. It goes beyond what statistical or demographic descriptions provide to give a poignant view of the lives of ordinary humans in often extraordinary circumstances. It is ideal for courses in ethnographic research, sociology, political science, Latin American Studies and more, or as an interesting and informative read on its own. ― Ethnic and Racial Studies Review Portraits is an outstanding collection that combines sociological life history with the Latin American tradition of testimonio literature, to provide twelve compelling stories of people navigating the durable and cruel inequalities of our world. Chapters cover the region from the Southern Cone to the US Gulf Coast, showing how individuals confront, adapt, alter, and navigate the macrosocial processes they find themselves in. Forced displacement, the drug economy, urban violence, informal labor, and multiple facets of structural disadvantage provide the context in which people forge ahead, create spaces of agency, and craft their lives, These stories provide neither voyeuristic shock nor breezy inspiration. Rather, in the best ethnographic tradition, they humanize what seems strange, and make understandable what seems inexplicable. -- David Smilde, Tulane University, author of Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism
About the Author Javier Auyero is the author or coauthor of many books, including The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins. He is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country.
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