Decency and Excess Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
15.03.2006
Verlag
Taylor and FrancisSeitenzahl
242
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1.8 cm
Gewicht
453 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-59451-187-5
Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring to produce goods for the richer countries. Despite living in dire poverty, these workers live in a thoroughly commodified social environment. Ritual, eroticism, electronic media, household adornment, payday-weekend "binging" are ways even chronically poor plantation residents dream beyond reality. Yet plantation residents' efforts to live decently and escape from the dead hand of necessity also deepen existing divisions of ethnic identity and status. As the divide between "haves" and "have-nots" worsens as a result of neoliberal reform and the decline of sugar in international markets, this book reveals on an intenselyhuman scale the coarsening of the social fabric of this and other communities of the world's poorer nations.
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