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Living Conditions of the Poor in Latin America

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Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. By AuyeroJavier and SwistunDébora Alejandra. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 188. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 9780195372939.

Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico. By MaharCheleen Ann-Catherine. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Pp. x + 181. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780292721920.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Robert Gay*
Affiliation:
Connecticut College
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Copyright
Copyright © 2012 by the Latin American Studies Association

References

1. Loïc Wacquant, “Toward a Dictatorship over the Poor? Notes on the Penalization of Poverty in Brazil,” Punishment & Society 5, no. 2 (2003): 197–205.