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Short‐Term Sustainability: Neoliberal Philanthropy, Dependency, and Divine Economics in Islamic Zanzibar

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the concept of sustainability became mainstream in development discourses from its environmentalist origins, it increasingly came to resemble the unchecked capitalist logics that it was originally meant to critique: Rather than reorganizing the economy, sustainability could be achieved through the economy as philanthropy became modeled on ...
Caitlyn Bolton
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurship‐As‐Struggle: The Crises and Politics of Entrepreneurial Becomings

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship among marginalized people in Bangladesh involves social, political, and cultural struggle against immediate crises of poverty and enduring crises of class, caste, religious, and gendered exclusions. Drawing on 25 months of ethnographic research among entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh and the life stories of 137 entrepreneurs ...
Grace Mueller   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between government and civil society: a neo-Gramscian framework for analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents a neo-Gramscian framework for the analysis of the relationship between government and civil society. We argue that the influence of ‘post-traditional’ theories of modernisation on ‘networks’ and ‘network society’ is crucial in ...
De Rynck, Filip   +2 more
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Sharing Debt and Houses: Strategies for Surviving Late Capitalism Among Aging Ghanaian Migrants in Canada

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The appropriation of commodities, or decommodification, occurs alongside processes of commodification as part of the diverse economies coexisting with capitalism. Drawing on research among aging Ghanaian immigrants living in Canada, I examine their attempts to decommodify housing within unaffordable housing markets as part of cultural projects
Cati Coe
wiley   +1 more source

Gramsci e as culturas subordinadas

open access: yesRevista IDEAS, 2010
Neste artigo analisa-se como Antonio Gramsci trata o que ele denomina por culturas subordinadas. O modo como as pessoas interpretam, nomeiam, classificam o mundo e como tais concepções ganham status hegemônico, além de como as realidades podem ser ...
Marcos Botton Piccin
doaj  

The Power of Platforms as Infrastructure. Technique, Aesthetics, Hegemony

open access: yesScienza & Politica
The literature highlighting the infrastructural nature of digital platforms is now widespread. Having briefly explored but fundamentally embraced this dimension, the aim of this article is to investigate the political implications of such categorization.
Mattia Frapporti
doaj   +1 more source

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