Auyero Javier
Lat Am Res Rev. 2011;46(1):5-29. doi: 10.1353/lar.2011.0014.
Drawing on six months of ethnographic fieldwork in the main welfare office of the city of Buenos Aires, this article dissects poor people's lived experiences of waiting. The article examines the welfare office as a site of intense sociability amidst pervasive uncertainty. Poor people's waiting experiences persuade the destitute of the need to be patient, thus conveying the implicit state request to be compliant clients. An analysis of the sociocultural dynamics of waiting helps us understand how (and why) welfare clients become not citizens but patients of the state.
基于在布宜诺斯艾利斯市主要福利办公室进行的为期六个月的人种志实地调查，本文剖析了穷人等待的生活经历。本文将福利办公室视为在普遍不确定性中充满强烈社交性的场所进行考察。穷人的等待经历使贫困者相信有必要保持耐心，从而传达了国家对顺从客户的隐性要求。对等待的社会文化动态进行分析有助于我们理解福利客户如何（以及为何）成为国家的病人而非公民。
