Decency and Excess

Name: Decency and Excess
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9781594511875
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Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation

Автор: Samuel Martinez

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverish...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Samuel Martinez

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2006

страници

242

EAN

9781594511875

ISBN

159451187X

Enbook ID

04830276

Издател

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Теглоt

453

Размери

152 x 229 x 19

Пълно описание

Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring to produce goods for the richer countries. Despite living in dire poverty, these workers live in a thoroughly commodified social environment. Ritual, eroticism, electronic media, household adornment, payday-weekend "binging" are ways even chronically poor plantation residents dream beyond reality. Yet plantation residents' efforts to live decently and escape from the dead hand of necessity also deepen existing divisions of ethnic identity and status. As the divide between "haves" and "have-nots" worsens as a result of neoliberal reform and the decline of sugar in international markets, this book reveals on an intensely human scale the coarsening of the social fabric of this and other communities of the world's poorer nations.

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