Immediate struggles : people, power, and place in rural Spain /

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Offers a study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, tackling the question of how to understand the alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. It examines the divide between government and its citizens in a region that has transformed from a primarily...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Narotzky, Susana
Other Authors: Smith, Gavin A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Spain > Bajo Segura.
Ethnologie > Espagne > Bajo Segura.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Economic history
Ethnology
Rural conditions
Bajo Segura (Spain) > Rural conditions.
Bajo Segura (Spain) > Economic conditions.
Spain > Bajo Segura
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Dramatis Personae; 1 Toward an Anthropological Framework for Studying Contemporary Europe; 2 The Histories of the Regional Political Economy; 3 Regulating Social Life through Uncertainty and Fear; 4 From Insecurity to Dependency; 5 From Insecurity to Movement; 6 Families and Entrepreneurs; 7 Flexible Structures and Torn Lives; 8 The Culture of Politics, the Politics of Culture; 9 The Power of Ethnography; Notes; References Cited; Index.

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