The Global Life of Austerity (eBook)

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