Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru
E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-5036-3095-6
Verlag: Stanford University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book centers on small-scale development investments working to transform villagers into Indigenous entrepreneurs ready to capitalize on Peru's new national brand and access the constantly deferred promise of national growth. That meant identifying as Indigenous, where few actively did so; identifying as an entrepreneur, in a place where single-minded devotion to a business went against the tendency to diversify income sources; and identifying every dimension of one's daily life as a resource, despite the unwelcome intimacy this required. Theorizing growth as an affective project that requires constant physical and emotional labor, Acts of Growth follows a diverse group of Andean residents through the exhausting work of making an economy grow.