Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Dramatis Personae; 1 Toward an Anthropological Framework for Studying Contemporary Europe; 2 The Histories of the Regional Political Economy; 3 Regulating Social Life through Uncertainty and Fear; 4 From Insecurity to Dependency; 5 From Insecurity to Movement; 6 Families and Entrepreneurs; 7 Flexible Structures and Torn Lives; 8 The Culture of Politics, the Politics of Culture; 9 The Power of Ethnography; Notes; References Cited; Index
Summary
Offers a study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, tackling the question of how to understand the alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. It examines the divide between government and its citizens in a region that has transformed from a primarily agricultural economy to an industrial one
