Ethnographies of neoliberalism /

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Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Description:vi, 313 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7896986
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Other authors / contributors:Greenhouse, Carol J., 1950-
ISBN:9780812241921 (alk. paper)
0812241924 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. State Investments in Insecurity
  • 1. Security and the Neoliberal State: British Political Imaginaries After 7/7
  • 2. The War on Terror and the Paradox of Sovereignty: Declining States and States of Exception
  • 3. Liberalism Against Neoliberalism: Resistance to Structural Adjustment and the Fragmentation of the State in Russia and Hungary
  • 4. Japan as Mirror: Neoliberalism's Promise and Costs
  • Part II. Politics in the Public-Private Divide
  • 5. Local Political Geography and American Political Identity
  • 6. Urbanizing the San Juan Fiesta; Civil Society and Cultural Identity in the Barrios of Caracas
  • 7. Neoliberalism, Satirical Protest, and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign
  • Part III.
  • 8. The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age
  • 9. Neoliberal Cultural Heritage and Bolivia's New Indigenous Public
  • 10. Neoliberal Education: Preparing the Student for the New Workplace
  • 11. Harlem's Pasts in Its Present
  • Part IV. Agency and Ambivalence
  • 12. Performing Laïcité: Gender, Agency, and Neoliberalism Among Algerians in France
  • 13. The "Daughters of Soul" Tour and the Politics and Possibilities of Black Music
  • 14. Rags to Riches: Religion, Media, and the Performance of Wealth in a Neoliberal Age
  • 15. The Temporality of No Hope
  • Notes
  • References
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments