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Acts of Growth - Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru (Paperback)
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Acts of Growth - Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru (Paperback)
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Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining
boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's
southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this
book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means-and importantly how
it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that
starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise
that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of villages
near new mining sites, agricultural export markets, and tourist
attractions, where Peruvian prosperity appears tantalizingly close,
yet just out of reach. This book centers on small-scale development
investments working to transform villagers into Indigenous
entrepreneurs ready to capitalize on Peru's new national brand and
access the constantly deferred promise of national growth. That
meant identifying as Indigenous, where few actively did so;
identifying as an entrepreneur, in a place where single-minded
devotion to a business went against the tendency to diversify
income sources; and identifying every dimension of one's daily life
as a resource, despite the unwelcome intimacy this required.
Theorizing growth as an affective project that requires constant
physical and emotional labor, Acts of Growth follows a diverse
group of Andean residents through the exhausting work of making an
economy grow.
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