Peterson Speculative Markets

Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7647-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

In this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson gives us a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation and "development" as they reverberate across markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterson, Kristin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction. Chemical Multitudes: Fake Drugs and Pharmaceutical Regulation in Nigeria 1

1. Idumota: Pharmacists, Traders, and the New Free Market 25

2. Risky Populations: Drug Industry Divestment and Militarized Austerity 53

3. Regulation as a Problem of Discernment: Open Markets in the Making 80

4. Derivative Life: Nominalization and the Logic of the Hustle 103

5. Chemical Arbitrage: A Social Life of Bioequivalence 126

6. Marketing Indefinite Monopolies: Intellectual Property, Debt, and Drug Geopolitics 155

Conclusion. Old Specters, New Dreams 177

Notes 185

Bibliography 209

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Kristin Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.