Journal article
The anthropology of austerity: An introduction
Focaal, Vol.2019(83), pp.1-12
03/01/2019
DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2019.830101
Abstract
This introduction posits that austerity is an instantiation of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and thus must be revisited in two ways, involving its historical and geographical rendering. First, anthropological accounts should think of austerity in the long term, providing encompassing genealogies of the concept rather than seeing it as breach to historical continuity. Second, the discipline should employ the comparative approach to bring together analyses of SAPs in the Global South and austerity measures in the Global North, providing a more comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon. We are interested in what austerity does to people's temporal consciousness, and what such people do toward a policy process that impacts their lives. We find, in this comparative pursuit, instead of Foucauldian internalization, dissent and dissatisfaction.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The anthropology of austerity: An introduction
- Creators
- Theodore Powers - University of IowaTheodoros Rakopoulos - University of Oslo
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Focaal, Vol.2019(83), pp.1-12
- DOI
- 10.3167/fcl.2019.830101
- ISSN
- 0920-1297
- eISSN
- 1558-5263
- Publisher
- Berghahn Journals
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984270193202771
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