Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina The Gray Zone of State Power |
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| Author:
| Auyero, Javier |
| Editor:
| McAdam, Douglas
Tarrow, Sidney
Tilly, Charles |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-85070-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $234.00 |
Book Description:
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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,...
More DescriptionClose 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 the first available analytic description of the origins, course, meanings, and outcomes of the December 2001 wave of lootings in Argentina.