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Market Versus Society

Anthropological Insights

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Editors:
  1. Manos Spyridakis

    1. Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of the Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece

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  • Deepens and challenges the idea that economy is the sum total of rational players
  • Brings to the forefront in anthropological terms that authority is objectively losing power
  • Questions both the legitimacy of power structures and they way those involved in these processes use and conceive them

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology (PSUA)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Manos Spyridakis
    Pages 1-22

  3. Economy and Society, Neoliberal Reform and Economic Deviance

    • James G. Carrier
    Pages 23-40

  4. The Root of All Evil: Money, Markets, and the Prospects of Rewriting the Rules of the Game

    • Alf Hornborg
    Pages 41-59

  5. Managing Against the Odds: Economic Crisis, Bad Governance and Grassroots Entrepreneurialism in Naples

    • Italo Pardo
    Pages 61-79

  6. From Nationalization to Neoliberalism: Territorial Development and City Marketing in Brindisi

    • Giuliana B. Prato
    Pages 81-100

  7. Relations with the Market: On Cosmologies of Capitalism in Greece

    • Andreas Streinzer
    Pages 101-112

  8. ‘We Are All Socialists’: Greek Crisis and Precarization

    • Manos Spyridakis
    Pages 113-131

  9. ‘De proletarios a propietarios…’ Neoliberal Hegemony, Labour Commodification, and Family Relationships in a ‘Petty’ Steel Workers’ Firm

    • Julia Soul
    Pages 133-152

  10. At the Periphery of Development: Scenarios and Actors of an Industrial Settlement Experiment and Its Crisis in the Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi

    • Fulvia D’Aloisio
    Pages 153-170

  11. Workers’ Committees in Israel in the Heyday of Neoliberalism: From Consent to Professionalisation to Alternative Solutions

    • Gadi Nissim
    Pages 171-188

  12. Sport, the Market and Society: Contrasting the Rhetoric and Reality of Sport as a Growth Catalyst

    • Iain Lindsay
    Pages 189-207

  13. Autonomy and Adaptivity: Farmer’s Work in France

    • Martin Büdel
    Pages 209-226

  14. Economic Rationality and Human Experience: Global Agrifood Chains from the Perspective of Social Anthropology

    • Alicia Reigada
    Pages 227-246

  15. Neoliberal Agrarian Policies and Its Effects: Labour Flexibility and Regimentation in Mexico’s Export Agricultural Industry

    • Christian Zlolniski
    Pages 247-266

  16. The Renegotiation of Identity and Alterity in an Economically and Spatially Changing Context: The Case of a Former Industrial and Mining District of Saint-Etienne (France)

    • Corine Vedrine
    Pages 267-283

  17. ‘Weak Heritage’ and Neighbourhood in Contemporary Cities: Capitalism and Memories of Urban Utopias

    • Michel Rautenberg
    Pages 285-302

  18. Anthropology in a Neoliberal World

    • Paul Durrenberger
    Pages 303-317

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 319-333
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About this book

This volume addresses the fraught relationship between market and society in times of social and economic crisis, exploring how they interact in key social, cultural, and political arenas on a global scale. The contributors examine the neoliberal market in anthropological and ethnographic terms to question whether “market logic” has won out against social aspects of human existence in a framework of minimal state protection and the devaluation of human labor. Fruitfully combining empirical data and theoretical approaches, the volume investigates the extent to which ordinary people accept unequal allocations of resources and examines their sense of belonging in an expansive neoliberal economy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of the Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece

    Manos Spyridakis

About the editor

Manos Spyridakis is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Market Versus Society

  • Book Subtitle: Anthropological Insights

  • Editors: Manos Spyridakis

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74189-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74188-8Published: 19 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08931-3Published: 14 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74189-5Published: 07 March 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2436

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2444

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 333

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology, Structural Anthropology

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