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Clawing Back: Redistribution in Precarious Times

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Availability:In StockContributor:Deborah JamesSeries:Culture and Economic LifePublish date:7/1/2025Pages:206
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642874ISBN-10:1503642879UPC:9781503642874Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Cultural & Social, African StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCFRE8HE3E

The impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade. In settings where previous political regimes are reformed, or toppled and replaced by new ones, redistribution can also be a policy specifically oriented at redress, one exercised at the formal level of policy. Drawing on a comparative ethnography in South Africa and the United Kingdom, Clawing Back explores how notions of reallocation and payout are intimately connected with those of compensation for a loss. Where financialization is accompanied by increased informalization, redistribution can equally involve the market as well as kinship and social networks. Drawing on a rich ethnography of the human relationships at the center of redistribution, Deborah James shows how borrowing can provide negotiation opportunities to wage earners and welfare beneficiaries alike: they make use of debt to constitute relations and futures, to engage with the state, to convert between commodified and non-commodified relationships. Rather than suggesting that financialization is serving either a totally negative or wholly beneficial purpose, James posits a different way of visualizing the relationship between the finance industry and the world of everyday needs.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642874ISBN-10:1503642879UPC:9781503642874Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Cultural & Social, African StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCFRE8HE3E
Deborah James is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Faculty Associate in the International Inequalities Institute. She is the author of Money From Nothing (Stanford, 2015).
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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