Janet Roitman: Anti-Crisis | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780822355274 | Anti-Crisis | Janet Roitman | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback)

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Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises but also what sort of analytical work the concept of crisis enables. What, she asks, are the stakes of crisis? Taking responses to the so-called subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008 as her case in point, Roitman engages with the work of thinkers ranging from Reinhart Koselleck to Michael Lewis, and from Thomas Hobbes to Robert Shiller. In the process, she questions the bases for claims to crisis and shows how crisis functions as a narrative device, or how the invocation of crisis in contemporary accounts of the financial meltdown enables particular narratives, raising certain questions while foreclosing others.

Über den Autor

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.

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

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822355274
ISBN-10:	0822355272
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Roitman, Janet
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	226 x 149 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Janet Roitman
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.11.2013
Gewicht:	0,265 kg