Deepens and challenges the idea that economy is the sum total of rational players Brings to the forefront in anthropological terms that authority is objectively losing power Questions both the legitimacy of power structures and they way those involved in these processes use and conceive them

Autorentext
Manos Spyridakis is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Economy and Society: Neoliberal Reform and Economic Deviance.- 3. The Root of All Evil. Money, Markets, and the Prospects of Rewriting the Rules of the Game.- 4. Managing Against the Odds. Economic Crisis, Bad Governance and Grassroots Entrepreneurialism in Naples.- 5. From Nationalization to Neoliberalism. Territorial Development and City Marketing in Brindisi.- 6. Relations with the Market. On Cosmologies of Capitalism in Greece.- 7. 'We are all socialists'. Greek Crisis and Precarization.- 8. 'De proletarios a propietarios'. Neoliberal Hegemony, Labor Commodification and Family Relationships in a 'Petty' Steel Workers' Firm.- 9. At the Periphery of Development. Scenarios and Actors of an Industrial Settlement Experiment and its Crisis in the Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi.- 10. Workers' Committees in Israel in the Heyday of Neoliberalism. From Consent to Professionalization to Alternative Solutions.- 11. Sport, the Market and Society. Contrasting the Rhetoricand Reality of Sport as a Growth Catalyst.- 12. Autonomy and Adaptivity. Farmer's Work in France.- 13. Economic Rationality and Human Experience. Global Agrifood Chains from the Perspective of Social Anthropology.- 14. Neoliberal Agrarian Policies and its Effects. Labor Flexibility and Regimentation in Mexico's Export Agricultural Industry.- 15. The Renegotiation of Identity and Alterity in an Economically and Spatially Changing Context. The Case of a Former Industrial and Mining District of Saint-Etienne (France).- 16. 'Weak Heritage' and Neighbourhood in Contemporary Cities. Capitalism and Memories of Urban Utopias.- 17. Anthropology in a Neoliberal World.