Book chapter
On Austerity and Structural Adjustment: Continuity and Difference across Space and Time
The Global Life of Austerity, pp.91-102
Critical interventions, 17, Berghahn Books
2018
DOI: 10.1515/9781785338717-007
Abstract
Alongside the contemporary wave of austerity that has enveloped Europe, an academic discourse has developed that frames the impact of fiscal disciplining as a primarily European concern. Such accounts elide the continuities between austerity and the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) that continue to manifest—albeit in different form—across the Global South. Noting that the dissemination of policy principles associated with SAPs and austerity overlap might seem rote. After all, these are simply transnational assemblages whose movement has been enabled by elite class considerations. However, the resurgence of austerity offers an opportunity to reflect on how power, knowledge production, and
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On Austerity and Structural Adjustment: Continuity and Difference across Space and Time
- Creators
- Theodore Powers
- Contributors
- Theodoros Rakopoulos (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Global Life of Austerity, pp.91-102
- Series
- Critical interventions; 17
- DOI
- 10.1515/9781785338717-007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984270166902771
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