Contentious Lives

"Javier Auyero proves that you can go home again--and that with the proper experience elsewhere you can see more than you would have noticed if you had never left. Returning to his native Argentina as a sympathetic, well trained observer of political conflict, he shows us how intense personal lives and passionate political participation connect with each other. Auyero tells stories of Argentinian political and economic crises from an entirely fresh perspective."--Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University

Javier Auyero is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.