Janet Roitman

Anti-Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking the so-called subprime mortgage crisis as her case study, Janet Roitman analyzes "crisis" as a narrative device, explaining how the term enables some narratives and questions while foreclosing others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355274
• ISBN-10: 0822355272
• Artikelnr.: 39045909

Autorenporträt

Janet Roitman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. What Is at Stake? 1
1. Crisis Demands 15
Judgment Day
The Moral Demand
The Test
2. Crisis Narratives 41
Bubbles
Houses
Finance
Subjects
3. Crisis: Refrain! 71
Noncrisis Narrations
The Crisis that does not Obtain
Conclusion: Dreams 91
Notes 97
References 133
Index 153