Ethnographies of Neoliberalism

by Greenhouse, Carol J.

• ISBN13: 9780812241921
• ISBN10: 0812241924
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-23
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

Why do people invest so much emotional energy and resources in conflicts over images, symbols, rituals, and other cultural expressions? The answers explored in Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies view such expressions as barriers to or opportunities for inclusion in a divided society's symbolic landscape and political life.

Author Biography

Carol J. Greenhouse is chair of the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University and the coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Life in the Context of Dramatic Political Change, editor of Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States, and coauthor of A Moment's Notice: Time Politics Across Cultures.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
State Investments in Insecurity
Security and the Neoliberal State: British Political Imaginaries After 7/7	p. 13
The War on Terror and the Paradox of Sovereignty: Declining States and States of Exception	p. 28
Liberalism Against Neoliberalism: Resistance to Structural Adjustment and the Fragmentation of the State in Russia and Hungary	p. 44
Japan as Mirror: Neoliberalism's Promise and Costs	p. 60
Politics in the Public-Private Divide
Local Political Geography and American Political Identity	p. 77
Urbanizing the San Juan Fiesta; Civil Society and Cultural Identity in the Barrios of Caracas	p. 96
Neoliberalism, Satirical Protest, and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign	p. 112
The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age	p. 131
Neoliberal Cultural Heritage and Bolivia's New Indigenous Public	p. 146
Neoliberal Education: Preparing the Student for the New Workplace
Harlem's Pasts in Its Present	p. 177
Agency and Ambivalence
Performing Laïcité: Gender, Agency, and Neoliberalism Among Algerians in France	p. 195
The "Daughters of Soul" Tour and the Politics and Possibilities of Black Music	p. 207
Rags to Riches: Religion, Media, and the Performance of Wealth in a Neoliberal Age	p. 221
The Temporality of No Hope	p. 238
Notes	p. 251
References	p. 267
List of Contributors	p. 299
Index	p. 301
Acknowledgments	p. 314
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.