By Javier Auyero
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In reasoning by analogy (Vaughan 2004), I argue that in order to fully understand and explain why the destitute wait and why this waiting seems somewhat ‘‘normal’’ to them (and to many academics), we need to reconstruct the daily labor of normalizing waiting. To do so, we need a thorough and systematic inspection of the words and deeds of those who wait and those who make them wait, as well as the relationships that they establish in the process. Going one step further, the analysis that follows also seeks to dissect the way in which this waiting (re)creates subordination.
The gdp has been growing at an annual rate of 9 percent and unemployment and poverty rates have decreased to the mid-1990s levels. And yet, 34 percent of the total population lives below the poverty line, and 12 percent subsists under the indigence line (Salvia 2007: 28). Even after the economic recovery that began in 2003, poor people’s material and symbolic conditions were deeply a√ected by the sustained decline of income levels in the lower rungs of the job market and the growth of informal employment.
So, she went back home and then came to school. We had to call her mom to pick her up. June 9: A student’s mother came to see me. Her son, Manuel, has been absent for many days. She tells me that Manuel is full of pimples—just like her eight other children . . They live along the [highly contaminated] banks of [a dead river known as] the Riachuelo. August 3: I arrive in school at 7:30 am and the principal tells me that part of the ceiling in the main area of the school fell o√. This part of the school is now closed.
