ISBN:
9781782384687
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
246 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
The Human Economy 1
Keywords:
General Anthropology, Political Economy
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 --
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