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Along the integral margin uneven development in a Myanmar squatter settlement

"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell, Stephen (Anthropologist) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2022
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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