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Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies

Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies

Gago, Verónica
Mason-Deese, Liz

Hardcover

Series: Radical Américas

Business GeneralGeneral Political ScienceSouth American History

ISBN10: 0822368838
ISBN13: 9780822368830
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 16 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In Neoliberalism from Below--first published in Argentina in 2014--Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point of departure, Gago shows how alternative economic practices, such as the sale of counterfeit goods produced in illegal textile factories, resist neoliberalism while simultaneously succumbing to its models of exploitative labor and production. Gago demonstrates how La Salada's economic dynamics mirror those found throughout urban Latin America. In so doing, she provides a new theory of neoliberalism and a nuanced view of the tense mix of calculation and freedom, obedience and resistance, individualism and community, and legality and illegality that fuels the increasingly powerful popular economies of the global South's large cities.

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