Market Versus Society

Manos Spyridakis is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Economy and Society: Neoliberal Reform and Economic Deviance.- 3. The Root of All Evil. Money, Markets, and the Prospects of Rewriting the Rules of the Game.- 4. Managing Against the Odds. Economic Crisis, Bad Governance and Grassroots Entrepreneurialism in Naples.- 5. From Nationalization to Neoliberalism. Territorial Development and City Marketing in Brindisi.- 6. Relations with the Market. On Cosmologies of Capitalism in Greece.- 7. ‘We are all socialists’. Greek Crisis and Precarization.- 8. ‘De proletarios a propietarios…’. Neoliberal Hegemony, Labor Commodification and Family Relationships in a ‘Petty’ Steel Workers’ Firm.- 9. At the Periphery of Development. Scenarios and Actors of an Industrial Settlement Experiment and its Crisis in the Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi.- 10. Workers' Committees in Israel in the Heyday of Neoliberalism. From Consent to Professionalization to Alternative Solutions.- 11. Sport, the Market and Society. Contrasting the Rhetoricand Reality of Sport as a Growth Catalyst.- 12. Autonomy and Adaptivity. Farmer’s Work in France.- 13. Economic Rationality and Human Experience. Global Agrifood Chains from the Perspective of Social Anthropology.- 14. Neoliberal Agrarian Policies and its Effects. Labor Flexibility and Regimentation in Mexico’s Export Agricultural Industry.- 15. The Renegotiation of Identity and Alterity in an Economically and Spatially Changing Context. The Case of a Former Industrial and Mining District of Saint-Etienne (France).- 16. ‘Weak Heritage’ and Neighbourhood in Contemporary Cities. Capitalism and Memories of Urban Utopias.- 17. Anthropology in a Neoliberal World.