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].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hart, Keith, editor.

Dias, Juliana Braz, contributor.

Sharp, John (John S.), editor.

Series:

The Human Economy

The Human Economy ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Developing countries.

Sustainable development.

Financial crises--Developing countries.

Financial crises.

Money--Developing countries.

Money.

Power (Social sciences)--Developing countries.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-542-5

1-78533-342-9

1-78238-468-5

OCLC:

891445805