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Navigating austerity : currents of debt along a South Asian river /

Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bear, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
Colección:Anthropology of policy (Stanford, Calif.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Unpredictable circulations : the bureaucratic life of fiscal crisis
  • Nationalist melancholia and the limits of austerity public sector unionism
  • Family capital, state pedigree and the limits of austerity public goods
  • Making a river of gold : speculation, friendship and entrepreneurial society
  • Ajeet's accident : timespaces of global trade and ethical fixes in circulation
  • Uncertain futures and eternal returns : timespaces of production in an informalised shipyard
  • Conclusion 1 : towards a new social calculus
  • Conclusion 2 : sovereign debt, equality and redistribution : a global social calculus.