Full Description
Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted populations. Yet, as the contributors to this collection argue, the recent austerity-related European crisis is not a breach of erstwhile development schemes, but a continuation of economic policies. Using historical analysis and ethnographically-grounded research, this volume shows the similarities of the European conundrum with realities outside Europe, seeing austerity in a non-Eurocentric fashion. In doing so, it offers novel insights as to how economic crises are experienced at a global level.
Contents
Introduction
Theodoros Rakopoulos
Chapter 1. Austerity:An Econo my of Words
Keith Hart
Chapter 2. Performing Austerity:Greece's Debt Crisis an d European Integration
Cris Shore and Sally Raudon
Chapter 3. Austerity, Socialism, and the Capitalist Anti-Market
Patrick Neveling
Chapter 4. Debt, Vultures and Austerity in Argentina
Victoria Goddard
Chapter 5. Austerity Wars: The Crisis of Financialization and the Struggle for Democracy
Jaime Palomera
Chapter 6. On Austerity and Structural Adjustment: Tracing Continuity aand Difference across Space and Time
Theodore Powers
Chapter 7. The 'Middle-Classification' of the Public Space, Migration and the Silences of History: Austerity in Portugal
José Mapril and Ruy Llera Blanes
Chapter 8. (De-)stabilizing the European Austerity Debate via an Asian Detour: Lessons from Labour in Post-Crisis South Korea
Elisabeth Schober
Chapter 9. Austerity and "the Discipline of Historical Context"
Don Kalb
