People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis

Perspectives from the Global South
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-467-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: The Human Economy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart, Keith

Sharp, John

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sharp, John
John Sharp is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Pretoria and South Africa Director and International Director of the Human Economy Program. He taught at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. He has published on the mission reserves of Northern Cape Province, the Bantustan of Qwaqwa, on the white Afrikaans-speaking inhabitants of Pretoria, and on the history of South African anthropology.

Hart, Keith
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).

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).