Roitman Anti-Crisis

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7743-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Taking the so-called subprime mortgage crisis as her case study, Janet Roitman analyzes "crisis" as a narrative device, explaining how the term enables some narratives and questions while foreclosing others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roitman, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. What Is at Stake? 1

1. Crisis Demands 15

Judgment Day

The Moral Demand

The Test

2. Crisis Narratives 41

Bubbles

Houses

Finance

Subjects

3. Crisis: Refrain! 71

Noncrisis Narrations

The Crisis that does not Obtain

Conclusion: Dreams 91

Notes 97

References 133

Index 153

Über Autor(innen)

Janet Roitman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa.