Title Routine crisis : an ethnography of disillusion / Sarah Muir

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (181 pages) Series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning Chicago studies in practices of meaning. Contents Speaking of crisis -- A suspicious history -- Economies of loss -- Exhausted futures -- Solidary selves -- Argentine afterword Summary "Argentina, once heralded as the future of the West, has by now a long history of economic volatility. In 2001-2002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic currency devaluation, the largest sovereign default in world history, and the flight of foreign capital. Protests and street blockades punctuated a moment of profound political uncertainty, epitomized by the rapid succession of five presidents in four months. Since then, Argentina has fought economic fires on every front, from inflation to cost of utilities to depressed industrial output. When things clearly aren't working, when the constant churning of booms and busts makes life almost unlivable, why does our deeply compromised order seem so inescapable? Why does critique seem so blunt even as crisis after crisis appears on the horizon? Anthropologist Sarah Muir offers a cogent meditation on the limits of critique at this historical moment, drawing on deep experience in Argentina but reflecting on a truly global condition. If we can see clearly how things are being upended in a manner that is ongoing, tumultuous, and not for the good, what would we need--and what would we need to let go--to usher in a revitalized critique for today's world? Routine Crisis is an original provocation and a challenge to think beyond the limits of exhaustion and reinvigorate criticism for the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Middle class -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Middle class -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- Attitudes Crises -- Argentina Financial crises -- Argentina Financial crises -- Social aspects -- Argentina SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. Crises Economic history Economic history -- Public opinion Financial crises Financial crises -- Social aspects Middle class Middle class -- Attitudes Politics and government -- Public opinion Public opinion SUBJECT Argentina -- Economic conditions -- Public opinion Argentina -- Social conditions -- Public opinion Argentina -- Politics and government -- Public opinion Argentina -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Subject Argentina Argentina -- Buenos Aires Form Electronic book ISBN 022675281X 9780226752815

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