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Routine Crisis - An Ethnography of Disillusion (Hardcover)
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Routine Crisis - An Ethnography of Disillusion (Hardcover)
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
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Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has
a long history of economic volatility. In 2001-2002, a financial
crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic
currency devaluation, the largest sovereign default in world
history, and the flight of foreign capital. Protests and street
blockades punctuated a moment of profound political uncertainty,
epitomized by the rapid succession of five presidents in four
months. Since then, Argentina has fought economic fires on every
front, from inflation to the cost of utilities and depressed
industrial output. When things clearly aren't working, when the
constant churning of booms and busts makes life almost unlivable,
how does our deeply compromised order come to seem so inescapable?
How does critique come to seem so blunt, even as crisis after
crisis appears on the horizon? What are the lived effects of that
sense of inescapability? Anthropologist Sarah Muir offers a cogent
meditation on the limits of critique at this historical moment,
drawing on deep experience in Argentina but reflecting on a truly
global condition. If we feel things are being upended in a manner
that is ongoing, tumultuous, and harmful, what would we need to
do-and what would we need to give up-to usher in a revitalized
critique for today's world? Routine Crisis is an original
provocation and a challenge to think beyond the limits of
exhaustion and reimagine a form of criticism for the twenty-first
century.
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning |
Release date: |
May 2021 |
Authors: |
Sarah Muir
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
200 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-75264-8 |
Categories: |
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Archaeology >
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LSN: |
0-226-75264-X |
Barcode: |
9780226752648 |
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