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Along the integral margin : uneven capitalism in a Myanmar squatter settlement / Stephen Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Stephen (Anthropologist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Squatter settlements--Burma--Social conditions--21st century.
- Squatter settlements.
- Burma.
- Genre:
- Ethnographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book is an ethnographic study of informal housing and labor among residents of a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar's former capital, based on research conducted from 2016 to 2019"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: modernity's integral margins
- A deeper history of Myanmar's "transition"
- From rural dispossession to precarious urbanization
- Squatting amid capitalism and the contradictions thereof
- Debt collection as labor discipline
- The integral informality of marginalization workers
- Unfreedoms of capitalism
- Squatter self-organization and collective struggle
- Conclusion: the margins at the heart of modernity.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501764899
- 1501764896
- OCLC:
- 1336405029
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