Subjects in Bureaucracy
Administrative relationship and treatment of poverty

Translation by Alejandro Gorr
In a region where interactions between the poor and state bureaucrats multiply and become indispensable for the survival of the neediest, this brilliant and illuminating text provides us with diverse methodological and theoretical tools to understand and explain their necessity and effects. This is a necessary and pertinent book not only for understanding the complexity and ambiguity of both the material and symbolic aspects of bureaucratic encounters, but also for the construction of a political sociology that attends with equal emphasis to interactions, classifications, relations, and processes.