TY - JOUR
AU - Forment, Carlos A
AB - The various progressive and conservative governments that administered Buenos Aires from the 1990s onward implemented strikingly similar policies that were aimed at transforming the city and metropolitan region into a market-centered society. Their policies caused a record number of citizens to lose their jobs in the formal sector and to become scavengers almost overnight. As they crisscrossed daily the city’s neighborhoods gathering paper, plastic and other recyclable materials, these socially stigmatized, politically disenfranchised and economically pauperized scavengers practiced civility from below with many neighborhood residents from all walks of life in civil society and, occasionally, with municipal officials and members of one or another environmental NGO and waste disposal company in political society. In dialogue with Norbert Elias’s and Cheshire Calhoun’s accounts of liberal civility, and Etienne Balibar’s revisionist conception of radical civility, my study discusses them from the perspective of Buenos Aires’ waste pickers.
TI - Trashing violence/recycling civility: Buenos Aires’ scavengers and everyday forms of democracy in the wake of neoliberalism
JF - Anthropological Theory
DO - 10.1177/1463499618761298
DA - 2018-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/trashing-violence-recycling-civility-buenos-aires-scavengers-and-YKn4ZAcCIT
SP - 409
EP - 431
VL - 18
IS - 2-3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -