Neoliberalism from below : popular pragmatics and baroque economies / Verónica Gago ; translated by Liz Mason-Deese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gago, Verónica, author.

Series:

Radical Américas

Standardized Title:

Razón neoliberal. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

La Salada (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Fairs--Argentina--Lomas de Zamora (Partido).

Fairs.

Neoliberalism.

Argentina--Lomas de Zamora (Partido).

Informal sector (Economics)--Argentina--Lomas de Zamora (Partido).

Informal sector (Economics).

Under-the-table employment--Argentina--Lomas de Zamora (Partido).

Under-the-table employment.

Neoliberalism--Argentina.

Argentina.

Physical Description:

277 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"In Neoliberalism from Below--first published in Argentina in 2014--Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point of departure, Gago shows how alternative economic practices, such as the sale of counterfeit goods produced in illegal textile factories, resist neoliberalism while simultaneously succumbing to its models of exploitative labor and production. Gago demonstrates how La Salada's economic dynamics mirror those found throughout urban Latin America. In so doing, she provides a new theory of neoliberalism and a nuanced view of the tense mix of calculation and freedom, obedience and resistance, individualism and community, and legality and illegality that fuels the increasingly powerful popular economies of the global South's large cities"--amazon.com.

Contents:

Between the proletarian microeconomy and the transnational network : La Salada

Between La Salada and the workshop : communitarian wealth in dispute

Between servitude and the new popular entrepreneurship : the clandestine textile workshop

Between the workshop and the villa : a discussion about neoliberalism

Between postnational citizenship and the ghetto : the motley city

Between populism and the politics of the governed : governmentality and autonomy

Conclusion : neoliberal reason.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gago, Verónica, author. Neoliberalism from below

ISBN:

9780822368830

0822368838

9780822369127

0822369125

OCLC:

964327500