Immediate Struggles People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain

Name: Immediate Struggles People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain
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ISBN: 9780520245693

ISBN-10: 0520245695

ISBN-13: 9780520245693

Edition: 2006

Authors: Susana Narotzky, Gavin Smith

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This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union's "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining rich oral histories with a sophisticated and nuanced structural understanding of changing political economies, the authors examine the growing divide between government and its citizens in a region that has in the last four decades been transformed from a primarily agricultural economy to a primarily industrial one. Offering a new form of ethnography appropriate for the study of suprastate…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 275
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Glossary


Dramatis Personae



Toward an Anthropological Framework for Studying Contemporary Europe



Conflicting Histories



The Histories of the Regional Political Economy



Regulating Social Life through Uncertainty and Fear



From Insecurity to Dependency



From Insecurity to Movement



Regional Capitalism



Families and Entrepreneurs



Flexible Structures and Torn Lives



The Culture of Politics, the Politics of Culture



The Power of Ethnography


Notes


References Cited


Index