Kniha Decency and Excess Samuel Martinez

Decency and Excess

Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverish...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2006
Stránek
242
EAN
9781594511875
ISBN
159451187X
Enbook ID
04830276
Hmotnost
453
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 19

Kompletní popis

Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring to produce goods for the richer countries. Despite living in dire poverty, these workers live in a thoroughly commodified social environment. Ritual, eroticism, electronic media, household adornment, payday-weekend "binging" are ways even chronically poor plantation residents dream beyond reality. Yet plantation residents' efforts to live decently and escape from the dead hand of necessity also deepen existing divisions of ethnic identity and status. As the divide between "haves" and "have-nots" worsens as a result of neoliberal reform and the decline of sugar in international markets, this book reveals on an intensely human scale the coarsening of the social fabric of this and other communities of the world's poorer nations.

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