Good Vibrations, Strings Attached: The Political Ecology of the Guitar
In: Sociology and Anthropology, Band 4, Heft 5, S. 431-438
ISSN: 2331-6187
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In: Sociology and Anthropology, Band 4, Heft 5, S. 431-438
ISSN: 2331-6187
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 94, Heft 6, S. 1505-1506
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 86, Heft 3, S. 701-702
ISSN: 1548-1433
Introduction -- Mesopotamian roots of the modern financial system -- Mesopotamian financial innovations -- Financing ancient Egypt's organizational economy -- Finance and social capital in Classical Greece and Rome -- Justice to altruism: early Judeo-Christian finance -- Islamic finances and the Eastern Mediterranean -- Conclusion: hidden interests and the anthropology of credit
Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic tradition -- Credit and faith in medieval Iberia : the road not taken -- Early European finance 1050-1650 -- Transcending feudal finance in Western Europe -- Mercantile credit and the Atlantic slave trade -- Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in rural Morocco -- Ethnicity and social capital in 1970s sefrou -- Problematizing modern consumer credit -- An anthropology of the 2008 Credit Crisis -- Conclusion: hidden interests and the development of finance
This paper outlines the major factors contributing to deforestation in the Sierra Chatina of Oaxaca, Mexico and examines the role played by neo-liberal restructuring in these processes. The last 25 years of rural development in the Sierra Chatino has been accompanied by increasingly large-scale environmental changes. The most obvious outcome has been the loss of 40 percent of the areas natural vegetation. Deforestation has accelerated and exacerbated flooding and climate changes in the region as witnessed by the effects of El Niño driven storms such as Hurricane Pauline. This paper will focus on these processes of deforestation in the region. In this paper, we argue that the Mexican government's neo-liberal policies have encouraged the commoditization of the Sierra Chatina forests at the expense of long-term ecological sustainability. Since 1992, Mexico has moved toward privatization of forests by removing the legal roadblocks to leasing of ejido and communal lands. Moreover, as neo-liberal policies have devalued the currency, eliminated subsidies, the Chatino have been pushed deeper into poverty, and into unsustainable uses of their forests. Thus, we contend that transformations of land-use patterns seen in these coastal mountains are part of a fundamental shift in local livelihoods from subsistence to cash-based strategies. Keywords: deforestation, Mexico, Oaxaca, Chatino, neo-liberal policy, ecological sustainablity, migration, political ecology, el Niño, privatization, climate change, environmental degradation, rural development.
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In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Band 64, Heft 2, S. 104
ISSN: 1534-1518
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 555
In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Band 63, Heft 3, S. 151
ISSN: 1534-1518
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 790
Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico details the impact of neoliberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined constitutional protections and working-class interests since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Detailed ethnographic fieldwork shows how foreign investment, privatization, deregulation, and elimination of welfare benefits have devastated national industries and natural resources and threatened
Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico details the impact of neoliberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined constitutional protections and working-class interests since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Detailed ethnographic fieldwork shows how foreign investment, privatization, deregulation, and elimination of welfare benefits have devastated national industries and natural resources and threatened.
In: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Drawing on a broad range of case studies, the contributors to Terrestrial Transformations explore the political and economic forces entangled in environmental and ecological problems and look at humanity's future in light of climate change and existing environmental problems.