Decency and excess : global aspirations and material deprivation on a Caribbean sugar plantation
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Decency and excess : global aspirations and material deprivation on a Caribbean sugar plantation
Routledge, 2016, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index
''First published 2007 by Paradigm Publishers'' -- T.p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 A Place No One Calls "Home"
- Chapter 3 Living in Nowhere
- Chapter 4 Commodity Consumption in a Globalizing Age
- Chapter 5 An Indecent Life
- Chapter 6 Places and Flows
- Chapter 7 High Times in Hard Times
- Chapter 8 Material Passions
- Chapter 9 The Hot and the Cold
- Chapter 10 Conclusions
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