ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin announced that it was canceling classes and closing the campus due to community spread of COVID-19. From that day forward, members of the LLILAS Benson community began to figure out how we would live, work, support our loved ones, shop for … [Read more...] about To the Reader
Javier Auyero
The Pandemic at the Urban Margins: COVID-19 and Networks of Support in Buenos Aires
BY SOFÍA SERVIAN AND JAVIER AUYERO HOW DO THE URBAN POOR SURVIVE? Roughly half a century ago, anthropologist Larissa Lomnitz conducted fieldwork in Cerrada del Condor, a shantytown of about 200 houses in Mexico City, to answer just that question. The outcome of that field research was the … [Read more...] about The Pandemic at the Urban Margins: COVID-19 and Networks of Support in Buenos Aires
