About

Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology and the founder and director of the Urban Ethnography Lab at the University of Texas-Austin. He includes poverty and marginality, political ethnography, and urban violence in his main areas of research.

His many books include most recently In Harm’s Way: The Uses and Forms of Interpersonal Violence at the Urban Margins (with María Fernanda Berti, Princeton University Press, 2015), Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina (Duke University Press, 2012), and the award-winning Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (with Débora Alejandra Swistun, Oxford University Press, 2009). He holds a PhD from the New School for Social Research.