Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition

by Javier Auyero

Book Overview

Contentious Lives examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered, individually and collectively, by those who participate in them. Javier Auyero focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina (the two-day protest in the northwestern city of Santiago del Estero in 1993 and the six-day road blockade in the southern oil towns of Cutral-co and Plaza Huincul in 1996) and the roles of the protests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822331152
• ISBN13: 9780822331155
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"