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Javier Auyero is the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on urban marginality, political ethnography, and collective violence. Auyero's work has received funding from prestigious organizations including the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Science Foundation. He is the author and co-author of several influential books, such as 'Poor People’s Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita' and 'Contentious Lives: Argentine Women, Protests, and the Quest for Recognition'. He has served as the editor of the journal 'Qualitative Sociology' and as the director of the Urban Ethnography Lab at the University of Texas. Auyero is currently involved in editing a series for the Global Comparative Ethnography Series at Oxford University Press. His courses reflect his expertise in social scientific methods and theories, shaping the understanding of urban social dynamics among students.
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