City of Flowers: An Ethnography of Social and Economic Change in Costa Rica's Central Valley - Couverture souple

Mannon, Associate Professor Of Sociology Susan E

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0190464437 ISBN 13 : 9780190464431

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

City of Flowers is an ethnographic study of social and economic change in Costa Rica. Rather than investigate how macroeconomic forces bear down on workers and households, this book explores how individuals and households give meaning and shape to neoliberalism as it evolves over time. Drawing on twenty years of field work and 100 life histories of people living in one Costa Rican city, the book considers how individuals in four different class locations negotiate the economic changes going on around them. Author Susan E. Mannon argues that these responses are bound up in class, race, and gender aspirations and anxieties.

City of Flowers is a volume in the ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY series, which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan E. Mannon is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Her work has been published in Gender & Society and Human Organization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190464437
• ISBN 13: 9780190464431
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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