Political & Economic Anthropology

After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath offers a thought-provoking examination of the state of contemporary anthropology, identifying key issues that have confronted the discipline in recent years and linking them to neoliberalism. The volume explores the effect of..

The contributors to this volume analyse how the changing political economy and the regional and international politics of Asia have shaped and reshaped borderland relations. These borders have witnessed ever greater human activity in terms of trade, commerce, and tourism. It was originally published..

Drawing on fieldwork from a range of locations around the globe, this volume explores the struggles of ordinary people in the face of capitalist change and the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis, particularly in its Marxist variant, can move anthropology toward a vital, engaged fo..

Drawing on fieldwork from a range of locations around the globe, this volume explores the struggles of ordinary people in the face of capitalist change and the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis, particularly in its Marxist variant, can move anthropology toward a vital, engaged fo..

From a global perspective, intellectual property is a powerful discourse that governs the world system by framing the notion of piracy as a criminal activity. But at the national level, how do nation-states resist and/or endorse, interpret, and apply a global perspective? And what effect does that h..

In a time of renewed interest in insurrectionary movements, urban protest, and anti-austerity indignation, the idea of resistance is regaining its relevance in social theory. Re-examining resistance as a concept that can aid social analysis, this book highlights the dangers of pathologising resistan..

In a time of renewed interest in insurrectionary movements, urban protest, and anti-austerity indignation, the idea of resistance is regaining its relevance in social theory. Re-examining resistance as a concept that can aid social analysis, this book highlights the dangers of pathologising resistan..

‘Freedom’ is one of the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. This book provides an up-to-date overview from an anthropological perspective of the diverse ways in which freedom is understood and practised in everyday life, including the emergent relationships between gover..

This book deals ethnographically with economic globalization from below in its broadest sense, from producers to traders to vendors to consumers across the globe...

This book deals ethnographically with economic globalization from below in its broadest sense, from producers to traders to vendors to consumers across the globe...

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Territoriality is a key concept in how we understand the interaction between governmentality and the ways in which different communites use and dwell upon the land. However, it is also an unexplored area of inquiry - certainly in terms of comparative ethnography scholarship. This volume addresses th..