Global Life of Austerity

Theodoros Rakopoulos is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has previously worked as Research Fellow at the University of Bergen (2015-16) and at the Human Economy Programme (University of Pretoria, 2013-14). He has conducted long-term fieldwork in rural Sicily and urban Greece and has published extensively in anthropological and regional journals, more recently in Current Anthropology and Critique of Anthropology. His monograph From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia land in Sicily was published by Berghahn (2017).

• IntroductionTheodoros RakopoulosChapter 1. Austerity:An Econo my of WordsKeith HartChapter 2. Performing Austerity:Greece’s Debt Crisis an d European IntegrationCris Shore and Sally RaudonChapter 3. Austerity, Socialism, and the Capitalist Anti-MarketPatrick NevelingChapter 4. Debt, Vultures and Austerity in ArgentinaVictoria GoddardChapter 5. Austerity Wars: The Crisis of Financialization and the Struggle for DemocracyJaime PalomeraChapter 6. On Austerity and Structural Adjustment: Tracing Continuity aand Difference across Space and TimeTheodore PowersChapter 7. The 'Middle-Classification' of the Public Space, Migration and the Silences of History: Austerity in PortugalJosé Mapril and Ruy Llera BlanesChapter 8. (De-)stabilizing the European Austerity Debate via an Asian Detour: Lessons from Labour in Post-Crisis South KoreaElisabeth SchoberChapter 9. Austerity and “the Discipline of Historical Context”Don Kalb