Portraits of persistence: inequality and hope in Latin America

In: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Abstract

"This collection takes a similar format to that of Auyero's earlier book, Invisible in Austin. It was conceived of at the start of the COVID era in UT's Urban Ethnography Lab, where Auyero and some of his colleagues and grad students discussed the ways that the pandemic had renewed conversations on a whole host of issues. But with this book, he wanted to diversify the contributions from authors at all career levels, from graduate students to senior scholars. Each chapter of "Portraits of Latin America" focuses on a specific person and social issue, but rather than being based in one city, these subjects are throughout Latin America and each chapter carefully situates these issues with the socio-historical context of their specific local regions or countries. The issues that come up throughout are threaded together by some central question that Auyero and his colleagues considered: How do people now make sense of the choices they face and how do they experience inequality? How do these experiences help people imagine what can be possible?"--