04472nam 2201069 450 991081541490332120230126212226.00-520-95764-410.1525/9780520957640(CKB)2670000000529040(EBL)1639079(SSID)ssj0001130882(PQKBManifestationID)11749914(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001130882(PQKBWorkID)11110903(PQKB)10235687(StDuBDS)EDZ0000229854(MiAaPQ)EBC1639079(OCoLC)871257560(MdBmJHUP)muse32360(DE-B1597)519805(DE-B1597)9780520957640(Au-PeEL)EBL1639079(CaPaEBR)ebr10841534(CaONFJC)MIL577587(EXLCZ)99267000000052904020140314h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrIn pursuit of the good life aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India /Jocelyn Lim ChuaBerkeley, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28116-0 0-520-28115-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Note --Introduction --1. Between the Devil and the Deep Sea --2. Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops --3. Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell --4. Care-full Acts --5. Anywhere but Here --6. Fit for the Future --Afterword --Notes --References --IndexOnce celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life.  Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world .In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala, living acquires new meaning and contours.  In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.SuicideSocial aspectsIndiaKeralaEast IndiansIndiaKeralaPsychologyEast IndiansIndiaKeralaSocial conditionsKerala (India)Social conditions21st centuryKerala (India)Economic conditions21st centuryanthropologists.asia scholars.asian studies.critical theory.cultural anthropology.ethnographers.ethnography.everyday life.fieldwork.global change.globalization.high suicide rates.historical struggles.human condition.kerala.life and death.modern history.modern india.modernization.nonfiction.postcolonial world.psychology.retrospective.social anxiety.social aspirations.social change.social development.social historians.social history.south india.suicide.tragic.SuicideSocial aspectsEast IndiansPsychology.East IndiansSocial conditions.362.280954/83SOC002010SOC002000bisacshChua Jocelyn Lim1671395MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815414903321In pursuit of the good life4033917UNINA04410nam 2200697 450 991082119560332120230907214833.00-8014-5478-60-8014-5479-410.7591/9780801454790(CKB)3710000000229952(OCoLC)890509249(CaPaEBR)ebrary10928469(SSID)ssj0001339211(PQKBManifestationID)12585639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339211(PQKBWorkID)11351193(PQKB)10766245(MiAaPQ)EBC3138653(OCoLC)1080549357(MdBmJHUP)muse58276(DE-B1597)496466(DE-B1597)9780801454790(Au-PeEL)EBL3138653(CaPaEBR)ebr10928469(CaONFJC)MIL681712(OCoLC)922998724(EXLCZ)99371000000022995220140918h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAmerican power after the financial crisis /Jonathan KirshnerIthaca, New York :Cornell University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (xii, 217 p.)Cornell Studies in MoneyIncludes index.1-322-50430-X 0-8014-5099-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-208) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --1. The Global Financial Crisis As World Politics --2. Learning From The Great Depression --3. From The First To The Second Us Postwar Order --4. Seeds Of Discord: The Asian Financial Crisis --5. The New American Model And The Financial Crisis --6. The Crisis And World Politics --7. The Crisis And The International Balance Of Power --8. Conclusions, Expectations, And Speculations --Notes --IndexThe global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis, Jonathan Kirshner explains how the crisis altered the international balance of power, affecting the patterns and pulse of world politics. The crisis, Kirshner argues, brought about an end to what he identifies as the "second postwar American order" because it undermined the legitimacy of the economic ideas that underpinned that order-especially those that encouraged and even insisted upon uninhibited financial deregulation. The crisis also accelerated two existing trends: the relative erosion of the power and political influence of the United States and the increased political influence of other states, most notably, but not exclusively, China. Looking ahead, Kirshner anticipates a "New Heterogeneity" in thinking about how best to manage domestic and international money and finance. These divergences-such as varying assessments of and reactions to newly visible vulnerabilities in the American economy and changing attitudes about the long-term appeal of the dollar-will offer a bold challenge to the United States and its essentially unchanged disposition toward financial policy and regulation. This New Heterogeneity will contribute to greater discord among nations about how best to manage the global economy. A provocative look at how the 2007-2008 economic collapse diminished U.S. dominance in world politics, American Power after the Financial Crisis suggests that the most significant and lasting impact of the crisis and the Great Recession will be the inability of the United States to enforce its political and economic priorities on an increasingly recalcitrant world.Cornell studies in money.Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Political aspectsNational securityEconomic aspectsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign economic relations21st centuryUnited StatesForeign economic relations20th centuryGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Political aspects.National securityEconomic aspects337.73Kirshner Jonathan614158MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821195603321American power after the financial crisis3921345UNINA