Individual and social adaptions to human vulnerability /

This volume of Research in Economic Anthropology, which presents ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the series by taking a close look at human vulnerability: the ways in which people attempt to cope with it and barriers to successfully overcoming it.¨The two...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: AAA Section Society for Economic Anthropology
Otros Autores: Wood, Donald C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Research in economic anthropology ; v. 38.
Temas:
Economic anthropology.
Social adjustment.
Social Adjustment
Anthropologie Đeconomique.
Adaptation sociale.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Economic anthropology
Social adjustment
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fornt Cover; Individual and Social Adaptations to Human Vulnerability; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Authors; Introduction: Individual and Social Adaptations to Vulnerability; References; "We're Living from Loan-to-Loan": Pastoral Vulnerability and the cashmere-debt Cycle in Mongolia; Introduction; Literature and Background; Methods and Research Sites; Pastoral Production and Vulnerability; Microfinance and the Cashmere-debt Cycle; Discussion and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References
  • Living within the Narrative of Microfinance: Vulnerability, Well-intentioned Debt, and the Individualization of Social Prob ... Introduction; Methods; Addressing Vulnerability in Context; The Emergence of the Narrative of Microfinance in Quito; Situating the Narrative: Microfinance's Flexible Role in Post-World War II Development Theory; Feminization and Individualization in the Narrative of Microfinance; Living the Narrative of Microfinance in Quito; Vulnerabilities in Well-intentioned Debt; Conclusion; References
  • Being an Entrepreneur and Feeling Vulnerable: Encountering Fragility in the Construction Business in the North of ItalyIntroduction; " & as in the fall on the trees the leaves"; Encountering Fragility and Unpredictability; Financial Crisis and/or Systemic Crisis; Fragility as a Consequence of Corruption and Political Interests; Discourses in a Time of Crisis; Fears and Fragilities at the Association; Sense of Powerlessness; Fragility of Negotiations; Why to Continue in Such a Risky Business?; Trust as a Way of Facing Unpredictability; Conclusion; Notes; References
  • Coping with Coffee Rust in Oaxaca, Mexico: Vulnerability and the Impact of Fair Trade on Smallholders' Adaptive CapacityIntroduction; Vulnerability, Climate Change, and Coping Mechanisms; Fair Trade and Coffee Producer Organizations; The Context of Coffee Production in Oaxaca; Coffee Rust and Climate Change; Research Methods; Coffee Producer Responses to the Rust Outbreak; Treating with Fungicides; Pruning; Replanting; Potential Long-term Responses; Fair Trade Organizations, Vulnerability, and Coping Mechanisms; Conclusion; Notes; References
  • Fishers, Vulnerability, and the Political Economy of Dispossession and Reconstruction in Post-Tsunami Tamil NaduIntroduction; Defining Vulnerable Humanitarian Subjects; Vulnerability and Relocation; GO 25
  • Public-Private Partnership between Government and NGOs; GO 172
  • Relocation as Condition for Housing; Relocation and Vulnerability; Distance; Site; Housing
  • Structural Issues; Income/Expenditure/Credit Survey Questionnaire; Vulnerability and Political Economy; Fishers, Development, and Vulnerability; Acknowledgments; References

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