Javier Auyero is 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, Bilbao. He is the author of
Lives at Risk: How Do Residents Experience, Explain, and Deal with Interpersonal Violence?
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Published:February 2025
2025. "Lives at Risk: How Do Residents Experience, Explain, and Deal with Interpersonal Violence?", Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires, Javier Auyero, Sofía Servián
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Chapter 5 reviews the scholarship on ways of coping with violence among the poor. It presents six tales of personal encounters with violence and discusses residents’ ways of dealing with danger. It offers context to the two long crónicas that follow in subsequent chapters.
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