" In Harm's Way is a jarringly powerful ethnographic study of how pervasive violence penetrated and remade the social fabric of an impoverished urban community. Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti spent years observing intimate yet frequently brutal interactions in the streets, schools, hospitals, and homes of one Buenos Aires neighborhood, but their account of the surprising ways that conflict binds people together has universal significance." --Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave and Going Solo "This remarkable book offers a vivid ethnographic glimpse of daily life in a sprawling Argentine slum as seen through the eyes of its residents. In Harm's Way explores the links between urban violence and the larger dynamics of Argentina's changing society, combining gripping description with powerful analysis. Auyero and Berti offer important new insights into contemporary life on the periphery." --Gay W. Seidman, author of Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism "This is a terrific book. Drawing on remarkably difficult and creative long-term and cross-generational ethnography in an extremely distressed marginal neighborhood, In Harm's Way represents an innovative, well-theorized approach to urban violence in the contemporary era.

" --Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio " In Harm's Way provides a new, refreshing--and disturbing--glimpse into the face of human pain and suffering in ultra-marginal locations. This powerful and sobering book stands in line with the best and most popular ethnographies on urban violence." --Randol Contreras, author of The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream.