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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816500203321

Titolo

People, money and power in the economic crisis : perspectives from the global south / / edited by Keith Hart and John Sharp ; contributors, Juliana Braz Dias [and ten others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78533-342-9

1-78238-468-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

The Human Economy ; ; Volume 1

Classificazione

QC 347

Disciplina

338.9/27091724

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Developing countries

Financial crises - Developing countries

Money - Developing countries

Power (Social sciences) - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: The Human Economy Project; Introduction; Chapter 1 - After the Big Clean-Up: Street Vendors, the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in Zimbabwe; Chapter 2 - Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of Death in Venda; Chapter 3 - ''Letting Money Work for Us'': Self-Organization and Financialization from Below in an All-Male Savings Club in Soweto; Chapter 4 - Market, Race and Nation: History of the White Working Class in Pretoria; Chapter 5 - Negotiating Inequality: The Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador, Brazil

Chapter 6 - Live Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Cape VerdeChapter 7 - Congo-Gauteng: Congolese Migrants in South Africa; Chapter 8 - Neither Nationals nor Cosmopolitans: The Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican Indians; Chapter 9 - Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in Nepal; References; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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