The Global Life of Austerity

Theodoros Rakopoulos is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has previously worked as Research Fellow at the University of Bergen (2015-16) and at the Human Economy Programme (University of Pretoria, 2013-14). He has conducted long-term fieldwork in rural Sicily and urban Greece and has published extensively in anthropological and regional journals, more recently in Current Anthropology and Critique of Anthropology. His monograph From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia land in Sicily was published by Berghahn (2017).

Introduction

Theodoros Rakopoulos



Chapter 1. Austerity:An Econo my of Words

Keith Hart



Chapter 2. Performing Austerity:Greece’s Debt Crisis an d European Integration

Cris Shore and Sally Raudon



Chapter 3. Austerity, Socialism, and the Capitalist Anti-Market

Patrick Neveling



Chapter 4. Debt, Vultures and Austerity in Argentina

Victoria Goddard



Chapter 5. Austerity Wars: The Crisis of Financialization and the Struggle for Democracy

Jaime Palomera



Chapter 6. On Austerity and Structural Adjustment: Tracing Continuity aand Difference across Space and Time

Theodore Powers



Chapter 7. The 'Middle-Classification' of the Public Space, Migration and the Silences of History: Austerity in Portugal

José Mapril and Ruy Llera Blanes



Chapter 8. (De-)stabilizing the European Austerity Debate via an Asian Detour: Lessons from Labour in Post-Crisis South Korea

Elisabeth Schober



Chapter 9. Austerity and “the Discipline of Historical Context”

Don Kalb