People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis: Perspectives from the Global South

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Keith Hart, John Sharp
Berghahn Books, 01.10.2014 - 246 Seiten

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. By looking at how people insert themselves into the actual, unequal economy, they seek to reflect human unity and diversity more fully than the narrow vision of conventional economics.

 

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Introduction
1
Street Vendors the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in Zimbabwe
19
Chapter 2 Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of Death in Venda
41
SelfOrganization and Financialization from Below in an AllMale Savings Club in Soweto
61
History of the White Working Class in Pretoria
82
The Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador Brazil
106
Cape Verde
129
Congolese Migrants in South Africa
151
The Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican Indians
173
Chapter 9 Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in Nepal
190
References
207
Index
227
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John Sharp is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Pretoria and South Africa Director and International Director of the Human Economy Program. He taught at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. He has published on the mission reserves of Northern Cape Province, the Bantustan of Qwaqwa, on the white Afrikaans-speaking inhabitants of Pretoria, and on the history of South African anthropology.

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