Javier Auyero

Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin where he directs the Urban Ethnography Lab. His main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban poverty, political ethnography, and collective violence. He is the author of Poor People’s Politics (Duke University Press, 2000) [New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Award], Contentious Lives (Duke University Press, 2003), Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina (Cambridge University Press, 2007) [Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association], Patients of the State (Duke University Press, 2012), and, together with Débora Swistun, Flammable. Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (Oxford University Press, 2009). Flammable received the Charles Tilly Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association (Collective Behavior/Social Movements Section), the Robert E. Park Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association (Urban Sociology/Community Section), the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, and the Best Book Award Association for Humanist Sociology. Together with Philippe Bourgois and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, he is the editor of Violence at the Urban Margins (Oxford University Press, 2015). His latest book, In Harm’s Way. Interpersonal Violence at the Urban Margins, co-authored with María Fernanda Berti, was published by Princeton University Press in 2015. He is also the editor of Invisible Austin. Life and Labor in Austin, Texas (University of Texas Press), a collaborative research project with graduate students at the UT-Urban Ethnography Lab. Javier was the editor of the journal Qualitative Sociology from 2005 to 2010. His research has been funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Gabriela Polit-Dueñas, and their two sons, Camilo and Luis. www.javierauyero.com