Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically
innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment
in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe,
Africa, and Asia. The diversity of case studies demonstrates that
unemployment is a pressing global phenomenon that sheds light on
the uneven consequences of free-market ideologies and policies.
Economic, social, and cultural marginalization is common in the
lives of the unemployed, but their experience and interpretation
are shaped by local and national cultural particularities. In
exploring those differences, the contributors to this volume employ
recent theoretical innovations and engage with some of the more
salient topics in contemporary anthropology, such as globalization,
migration, youth cultures, bureaucracy, class, gender, and race.
Taken together, the chapters reveal that there is something new
about unemployment today. It is not a temporary occurrence, but a
chronic condition. In adjusting to persistent, longstanding
unemployment, people and groups create new understandings of
unemployment as well as of work and employment; they improvise new
forms of sociality, morality, and personhood. Ethnographic studies
such as those found in Anthropologies of Unemployment are crucial
if we are to understand the broader forms, meanings, and
significance of pervasive economic insecurity and discover the
emergence of new social and cultural possibilities.
General
| Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2016 |
| First published: |
2016 |
| Editors: |
Jong Bum Kwon
• Carrie M. Lane
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-0465-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
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| LSN: |
1-5017-0465-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781501704659 |
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