Navigating austerity : currents of debt along a South Asian river / Laura Bear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bear, Laura, author.

Series:

Anthropology of policy (Stanford, Calif.)

Anthropology of policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debts, Public--Moral and ethical aspects--India.

Debts, Public.

Fiscal policy--Moral and ethical aspects--India.

Fiscal policy.

Fiscal policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Hugli River (India)--Economic conditions.

Hugli River (India).

India--Economic conditions--1991-.

India.

Economic conditions.

India--Economic policy--1991-2016.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xi, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Navigating Austerity addresses a key question of our era: What happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? Laura Bear traces the hidden currents of state debt crises and their often devastating effects through the stones of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats, and river pilots on the Hooghly River, a tributary of the Ganges that flows into the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Unpredictable circulations

2. Nationalist melancholia and the limits of austerity public sector unionism

3. Family capital, state pedigree and the limits of austerity public goods

4. Making a river of gold

5. Ajeet's accident

6. Uncertain futures and eternal returns

Conclusion: towards a new social calculus

Conclusion : sovereign debt, equality and redistribution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804789479

0804789479

9780804795531

0804795533

OCLC:

894746185