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THE CURRENCY OF FAILURE: Money and Middle-Class Critique in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires.
- Source :
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Cultural Anthropology (Society for Cultural Anthropology) . May2015, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p310-335. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- ABSTRACT The 2001-2002 Argentine financial crisis entailed a dramatic currency devaluation. I argue that the devalued peso served as a key site for self-reflexive national critiques, which circulated as a privileged currency of middle-class distinction. This essay engages with the ambivalences of a world of critical practice in which practitioners framed their own critiques as the compulsory labor of a people trapped by a paradoxical monetary reality, posited as socially constructed yet nonetheless inescapable. Tracing the links among disparate modes of signification and evaluation, the essay sketches a post-crisis, middle-class representational economy predicated on these practices of suspicious interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08867356
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Cultural Anthropology (Society for Cultural Anthropology)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 103382622
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.10