Neoliberalism From Below: Popular Pragmatics And Baroque Economies (radical Américas)
by Verónica Gago /
2017 / English / PDF
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InNeoliberalism from Below
Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina
in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism
is propelled not just from above by international finance,
corporations, and government, but also by the activities of
migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other
marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada
in Buenos Aires as a point of departure, Gago shows how
alternative economic practices, such as the sale of counterfeit
goods produced in illegal textile factories, resist neoliberalism
while simultaneously succumbing to its models of exploitative
labor and production. Gago demonstrates how La Salada's economic
dynamics mirror those found throughout urban Latin America.
In so doing, she provides a new theory of neoliberalism and a
nuanced view of the tense mix of calculation and freedom,
obedience and resistance, individualism and community, and
legality and illegality that fuels the increasingly powerful
popular economies of the global South's large cities.
—first published in Argentina
in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism
is propelled not just from above by international finance,
corporations, and government, but also by the activities of
migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other
marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada
in Buenos Aires as a point of departure, Gago shows how
alternative economic practices, such as the sale of counterfeit
goods produced in illegal textile factories, resist neoliberalism
while simultaneously succumbing to its models of exploitative
labor and production. Gago demonstrates how La Salada's economic
dynamics mirror those found throughout urban Latin America.
In so doing, she provides a new theory of neoliberalism and a
nuanced view of the tense mix of calculation and freedom,
obedience and resistance, individualism and community, and
legality and illegality that fuels the increasingly powerful
popular economies of the global South's large cities.