Erik Bahre

Ironies of Solidarity

Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 135mm x 216mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781786998583
• ISBN-10: 1786998580
• Artikelnr.: 57165485

Autorenporträt

Erik Bähre is Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Project Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance and author of Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. An ironic analysis 3. Hope and redistribution 4.
Penetrating a new market 5. The Janus face of inclusion 6. The enchantment
of abstract finance 7. Transforming mutualities in business 8. Death as
moral hazard 9. Conclusion: Ironies of solidarity