Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Fields of Dreams -- PART I. PLANTING MONEY -- 1. Origin Stories -- 2. The Rise of Imperial Finance: A Brief History -- 3. Speculative Blooms and Busts -- PART II. PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATIONS -- 4. Of Suffering and Salvation: Primitive Accumulation as Capitalist Historicity -- 5. Accumulation by DisPossession: Reflections on Historical Failure -- PART III. THRESHOLDS -- 6. The Psychotechnics of Capitalist Expansion: Industrial Psychology and the Science of Interiority -- 7. Indigenous Interiors -- PART IV. FARMS THAT GROW PEOPLE -- 8. Continuous Improvement: Investing in Human Potential -- 9. The Finca de Personas: Labor and the Art of Personal Transformation -- Conclusion. Postcolonial Redemption -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
In A Feast of Flowers, Christopher Krupa focuses on Ecuador's booming cut-flower sector and shows how capitalist expansion bound the Global South to new modes of financial dependency and subjected indigenous workers to elaborate forms of racial "improvement" and uplift
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Proquest, viewed May 9, 2023)
