People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis -

People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis

Perspectives from the Global South

Keith Hart, John Sharp (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
246 Seiten
2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-342-2 (ISBN)
34,85 inkl. MwSt
Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa - examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society.
The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society. The authors of these case studies examine people’s concrete economic activities and aspirations. By looking at how people insert themselves into the actual, unequal economy, they seek to reflect human unity and diversity more fully than the narrow vision of conventional economics.

Keith Hart is a co-director of the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria and Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His recent books include The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide (with Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani, 2010) and Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique (with Chris Hann, 2011).

Preface: The Human Economy Project

Keith Hart and John Sharp



Introduction

Keith Hart and John Sharp 



Chapter 1. After the Big Clean-up: Street Vendors, the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in Zimbabwe

Busani Mpofu



Chapter 2. Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of  Death in Venda

Fraser McNeill



Chapter 3. ‘Letting Money Work for Us’: Self-organization and Financialization from Below in an All-male Savings Club in Soweto

Detlev Krige



Chapter 4. Market, Race and Nation: History of the White Working Class in Pretoria

John Sharp



Chapter 5. Negotiating Inequality: the Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador, Brazil

Doreen Gordon



Chapter 6. Live Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Cape Verde

Juliana Braz Dias



Chapter 7. Congo-Gauteng: Congolese Migrants in South Africa

Saint-José Inaka and Joseph Trapido



Chapter 8. Neither Nationals nor Cosmopolitans: the Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican Indians

Jason Sumich



Chapter 9. Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in Nepal

Mallika Shakya



References

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Human Economy
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 336 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-78533-342-9 / 1785333429
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-342-2 / 9781785333422
Zustand Neuware
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