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

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2017 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gago, Verónica, author.
Contributor:
Mason-Deese, Liz, translator.
Series:
Radical Américas.
Radical Américas
Standardized Title:
Razón neoliberal. English
Language:
English
Spanish
Subjects (All):
La Salada (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Fairs--Argentina--Lomas de Zamora (Partido).
Fairs.
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.
Neoliberalism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (278 pages).
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.
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 mottled city
Between populism and the politics of the governed : governmentality and autonomy
Conclusion : neoliberal reason.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780822372738
0822372738
OCLC:
1143277528

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