The anthropology of austerity: An introduction

被引:23
作者
Powers, Theodore [1 ,2 ]
Rakopoulos, Theodoros [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Iowa, Anthropol, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[2] Univ Pretoria, Human Econ Programme, Pretoria, South Africa
[3] Univ Oslo, Dept Social Anthropol, Oslo, Norway
关键词
Austerity; crisis; Global South; structural adjustment; temporality; transnationalism; CRISIS;
D O I
10.3167/fcl.2019.830101
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
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.
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