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2003 EventsThe Costs of Crisis
Commentator: Mónica Pinto Moderator: Margaret E. Crahan Prof. Auyero's talk draws from ethnographic fieldwork and explores the ways in which daily interpersonal violence, intermittent state repressive violence, and the structural violence of unemployment dictate the pace of everyday life in poverty enclaves in contemporary Argentina. Javier Auyero is currently Assistant Professor in the sociology department at the State University of New York-Stony Brook. His main areas of interest are political ethnography, collective action, and urban poverty. His first book Poor People's Politics (Duke University Press, 2001) won the New England Council for Latin American Studies Best Book Prize and was a C. Wright Mills Award Finalist. In 2000, he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to carry out a study of forms of collective action against structural adjustment and public corruption in contemporary Argentina. Javier's new book, Contentious Lives. Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition, will be published by Duke University Press in 2003. Mónica Pinto is a professor of Human Rights and International Law at the University of Buenos Aires Law School. She has had a distinguished career as a public international lawyer. Professor Pinto has also acted as a legal adviser to successive Argentine delegations to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights since 1989. She is the author of many scholarly articles and books. Among them are: Human Rights, Selected Issues (1997), The Individual Petition System in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (1993) and Fragmentation or Unification Among International Institutions: Human Rights Tribunals (1999). She is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, New York. When: Friday, February 7 at 4:30 P.M. To reserve please send e-mail to bildner@gc.cuny.edu or leave message at (212) 817-2096.
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