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City of flowers : an ethnography of social and economic change in Costa Rica's Central Valley / Susan E. Mannon.
Van Pelt Library HN140.H47 M36 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mannon, Susan E., author.
- Series:
- Issues of globalization
- Issues of globalization : case studies in contemporary anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--Costa Rica--Heredia--Case studies.
- Social classes.
- Economic development--Social aspects--Costa Rica--Heredia--Case studies.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--Social aspects.
- Heredia (Costa Rica)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Heredia (Costa Rica).
- Heredia (Costa Rica)--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- Costa Rica--Heredia.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- An Engaging, Timely Ethnographic Study that Explores how Individuals and Households give meaning and shape to social and economic change in Costa Rica, City of Flowers is an ethnographic study of social and economic change in Costa Rica. Rather than investigate how macroeconomic forces bear down on workers and households, this book explores how individuals and households give meaning and shape to neoliberalism as it evolves over time. Drawing on twenty years of field work and 100 life histories of people living in one Costa Rican city, the book considers how individuals in four different class locations negotiate the economic changes going on around them. Author Susan E. Mannon argues that these responses are bound up in class, race, and gender aspirations and anxieties. City of Flowers is a volume in the Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology series, which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 A Book of One's Own 3
- A Brief History of Neoliberalism 6
- Globalization and the Ethnographic Imagination 9
- Economic Change Biography 12
- An Introduction to the Study 14
- Chapter 2 A Nation Born and Transformed 21
- A Coffee Culture Constructed 24
- Birth of the Second Republic 29
- Economic Crisis and Transformation 34
- An Ethnography Begins 37
- Chapter 3 Mobility in the New Millennium 41
- Luis' Story 42
- Heredia's New Professionals 46
- The Making of a Gated Community 52
- Violeta's Rebellion 59
- The Pitfalls of Progress 63
- Chapter 4 Love and Money in the Middle Class 67
- Rosalina's Story 68
- Heredia's Storied Middle Class 72
- Our Lady of Neighborly Love 77
- Margarita's Problem 83
- Lessons from the Corner Store 87
- Chapter 5 Fragile Families and Feminized work 93
- Mario's Story 94
- Heredia's Changing Working Class 97
- The Ties That Break and Bind 104
- Carlos' Mistake 110
- Downward Mobility in the New Economy 114
- Chapter 6 Shadow Workers and Social Exclusion 119
- Esperanza's Story 120
- Heredia's New Urban Marginals 124
- Precarious Living and Livelihoods 130
- Pedro's Request 136
- The Racial Politics of Social Exclusion 141
- Chapter 7 The Ethnographic Imagination Revisited 147
- Economic Change Retold 148
- Patriotism, Protest, and the Neoliberal Project 151
- A Nation Reimagined 155
- The Ignoble Ethnographer 159.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190464431
- 0190464437
- OCLC:
- 929331699
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