La formación económica de la sociedad argentina
The garment market and the marketplace -- Governing La Salada -- With god and the devil -- All I want is a sweatshop -- The garment entrepreneur at La Salada -- Dynamics of aspirations -- Narratives of sacrifice and autonomy -- Taste, credit, and bullets -- Squatters, cart-pulle…
"This study of the large, dangerous counterfeit clothing market in Buenos Aires known as La Salada addresses questions about informal and/or black markets, revealing how market exchanges function outside of the law, how the agreements for the market are made, and how social norm…
"This study of the large, dangerous counterfeit clothing market in Buenos Aires known as La Salada addresses questions about informal and/or black markets, revealing how market exchanges function outside of the law, how the agreements for the market are made, and how social norm…
"In the words of both the perpetrators of terrorism and their victims, God's Assassins explores what happens when a state turns on its citizens. Between 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 Argentines "disappeared" under the military junta. Most were imprisoned and tortured before …
"This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism in order to explain how security is understood, experienced, and constructed along the Triple Frontera, the border region shared by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. …
"Much has been written on the Argentine dictatorship and the transitional justice movement that brought its members to justice. However there has been no study to date of the economic accomplices to this dictatorship and the recent advancements in Argentina towards holding these…
This work explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization. It concludes that social capital can enhance democracy under historical conditions but that social capital can also undermine democratization where historical conditions have created vertica…