Chapter 2 What Financial Crisis? The Global Politics of Finance: Distributional Consequences and Legitimizing Narratives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Economy versus Democracy
5. Chapter 1 Habits of Austerity: Financialization and New Ways of Dealing with Money 19
6. Chapter 2 What Financial Crisis? The Global Politics of Finance: Distributional Consequences and Legitimizing Narratives 39
7. Chapter 3 Party Funding For and Against Democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa 58
8. Part II The Struggle for Economic Democracy
9. Chapter 4 Women as Mediators in Postwar Mozambique: Pushing Lobolo from Price to Propriety 83
10. Chapter 5 Negotiating State and Market: The South African HIV/AIDS Movement and Social Change 103
11. Chapter 6 Beyond the Market: White Workers in Pretoria 120
12. Chapter 7 Waves of Unrest Wildcat Strikes and Possible Democratic Change in Swaziland 137
13. Part III Visions of Human Economy and Democracy
14. Chapter 8 Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece: ‘Movementality’, Economic Democracy and Social Reproduction during Crisis 161
15. Chapter 9 Money for a Human Economy: A Reflection from Argentina 182
16. Chapter 10 Human Economy: The Revolutionary Struggle for Happiness 201
17. Chapter 11 Building a Human Economy Movement: The Precedent of Transnational Feminism 221
18. References 237
19. Index 259