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Format: Online-Ressource (xxii, 250 p) , ill

Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 0520245695 , 0520245687

Content: Offers a study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, tackling the question of how to understand the alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. It examines the divide between government and its citizens in a region that has transformed from a primarily agricultural economy to an industrial one

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Dramatis Personae; 1 Toward an Anthropological Framework for Studying Contemporary Europe; Part One Conflicting Histories; 2 The Histories of the Regional Political Economy; 3 Regulating Social Life through Uncertainty and Fear; 4 From Insecurity to Dependency; 5 From Insecurity to Movement; Part Two Regional Capitalism; 6 Families and Entrepreneurs; 7 Flexible Structures and Torn Lives; 8 The Culture of Politics, the Politics of Culture; 9 The Power of Ethnography; Notes; References Cited; Index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780520245693

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Immediate Struggles : People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain

Language: English

URL: Volltext

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Format: XXIII, 250 S. , graph. Darst.

ISBN: 0520245687 , 0520245695 , 9780520245686 , 9780520245693

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Bajo Segura ; Ländlicher Raum ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006003043.html

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006003043-b.html

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006003043-d.html

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Format: 1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-4237-8964-4 , 9786612771941 , 1-282-77194-9 , 0-520-93901-8 , 1-60129-028-4

Content: This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union's "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining rich oral histories with a sophisticated and nuanced structural understanding of changing political economies, the authors examine the growing divide between government and its citizens in a region that has in the last four decades been transformed from a primarily agricultural economy to a primarily industrial one. Offering a new form of ethnography appropriate for the study of suprastate polities and a globalized economy, Immediate Struggles contributes to our understanding of one region as well as the way we think about changing class relations, modes of production, and cultural practices in a newly emerging Europe. The authors also consider how phenomena such as the "informal economy" and "black market" are not marginal to the normal operation of state and economic institutions but are intertwined with both.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Glossary -- , Dramatis Personae -- , 1. Toward an Anthropological Framework for Studying Contemporary Europe -- , 2. The Histories of the Regional Political Economy -- , 3. Regulating Social Life through Uncertainty and Fear -- , 4. From Insecurity to Dependency -- , 5. From Insecurity to Movement -- , 6. Families and Entrepreneurs -- , 7. Flexible Structures and Torn Lives -- , 8. The Culture of Politics, the Politics of Culture -- , 9. The Power of Ethnography -- , Notes -- , References Cited -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-24568-7

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-24569-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.1525/9780520939011