The Commonalities of Global Crises

Markets, Communities and Nostalgia
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-50271-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 371 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 6014 g

Bringing together contributions
from an international group of social scientists, this collection examines
diverse crises, both historical and contemporary, which implicate market
forces, widening inequalities, social exclusion, forms of resistance, and ideological
polarisation. The Commonalities of
Global Crises offers carefully researched
case studies which stretch across large geographical distances- from Egypt to
the US and from northern, central, eastern and southern Europe to South
America- and covers timely issues including human rights, slavery, care,
migration, racism, and the far right. The volume demonstrates that such
different settings and diverse concerns are characterized by a common tension
in which the crises that unfold around pressures of widening marketization and
commodification are met by the (re)building or re-assertion of various
communities, and competing politics of solidarity and nostalgia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karner, Christian

Weicht, Bernhard

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzkrisen, Wirtschaftskrisen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzkrisen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.- Introduction:

Markets, “communities” and nostalgia; Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht.- 2.
France in times of the “Responsibility and Solidarity Pact”: “Neoliberal
normalization” or a laboratory of new resistance?; Frédéric Moulène.- 3. Neoliberal
moral economy: migrant workers’ value struggles across temporal and spatial
dimensions; Barbara Samaluk.- 4. Treble Troubles? Marketization, Social
Protection and Emancipation Considered through the Lens of Slavery; Julia O’Connell Davidson.- 5. State, Market, or back to the Family? Nostalgic
struggles for proper elder care; Bernhard Weicht.- 6. Moral economy versus political economy:

provincializing Polanyi; John Holmwood.- 7. Collective
identity under reconstruction: The case of West Piraeus (Greece); Giorgos
Bithymitris.- 8. Austria between “social protection” and “emancipation”: negotiating
global flows, marketization and nostalgia; Christian Karner.- 9. Disembedding
the embedded/disembedded opposition; José Julián López.- 10. The
politics of nostalgia in urban redevelopment projects: the case of Antwerp-Dam;
Bruno Meeus, Tim Devos and Seppe De Blust.- 11. Longing for purity:

countryside, (far-right) nationalism and the (im)possibility of progressive
politics of nostalgia Bernhard Forchtner.- 12. “Varieties of Nostalgia”
in Argentinean and Chilean generations Raimundo Frei.- 13. The Egyptian
Economic Crisis: Insecurity, Affect, Nostalgia Amal Treacher Kabesh.- 14.
Epilogue Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Karner is Associate
Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research
focuses on local, national and ethnic identity negotiations in the context of
contemporary globalization. His books include Writing History, Constructing
Religion (co-edited with James Crossley); Ethnicity and Everyday
Life; Negotiating National Identities; and The Use and Abuse of
Memory (co-edited with Bram Mertens).

Bernhard Weicht is Assistant
Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research
examines the construction of care, ageing, dependency, and the intersection of
migration and care policies and regimes. He is the author of The Meaning of
Care and chair of the European Sociological Association Research Network
‘Ageing in Europe’.