Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun
First book to analyze the timely topic of environmental/human consequences of unregulated industrial growth. Close up observation and individual stories show the suffering of a community of a polluted shantytown
A unique collaboration between a sociologist and anthropologist where one of the authors (Swistun) was born, raised, and lived in Flammable throughout the research. As a result of this book Swistun became aware of her own health problems as a likely consequence of living in Flammable and now works on a government project to improve living conditions in the neighborhood and relocate the residents. As environmental problems mount throughout the world, this book squarely places the miserable physical environment where the poor live at the center of the study of urban poverty and inequality.
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Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun
First book to analyze the timely topic of environmental/human consequences of unregulated industrial growth. Close up observation and individual stories show the suffering of a community of a polluted shantytown
A unique collaboration between a sociologist and anthropologist where one of the authors (Swistun) was born, raised, and lived in Flammable throughout the research. As a result of this book Swistun became aware of her own health problems as a likely consequence of living in Flammable and now works on a government project to improve living conditions in the neighborhood and relocate the residents.
As environmental problems mount throughout the world, this book squarely places the miserable physical environment where the poor live at the center of the study of urban poverty and inequality.