Tiresias en Villa Inflamable. Hacia una cronografí­a de la dominación

Abstract

Based on 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Flammable shantytown, a highly contaminated poor barrio in Argentina, this paper examines the links between environmental suffering, social domination, and collective perceptions of time. We show that the ways in which residents think and feel about (and cope with) pollution are deeply entangled with their perceptions of the future. We thus argue that an ethnographic account of the lived experiences of contamination should also be a tempography - i.e. a thick description of the vernacular sociotemporal order.