Jörg Wiegratz, Neoliberal Moral Economy: capitalism, socio-cultural change and fraud in Uganda. London: Rowman & Littlefield International (hb £100 – 978 1 7834 8853 7; pb £32.95 – 978 1 7834 8854 4). 2016, 375 pp.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0001972019000706
Abstract: Cars, as she notes, are productive sites of inquiry precisely because they are paradoxes that challenge the oversimplified narratives about the continent and its place within global modernity. She embraces that complexity with theoretical rigour… read more here.
Keywords: neoliberal moral; economy capitalism; capitalism socio; 978 7834 ... See more keywords
Hans in Luck or the moral economy of happiness in the modern age
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2018.1534448
Abstract: ABSTRACT Generations of men and women since antiquity have been preoccupied with the difficult quest for happiness. Up until modernity, people relied on the gods or God to grant them happiness. In the course of… read more here.
Keywords: hans luck; luck moral; happiness modern; economy happiness ... See more keywords
‘Russian merchant’ legacies in post-Soviet trade with China: Moral economy, economic success and business innovation in Yiwu
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DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1496916
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article focuses on Russian traders operating in China, particularly in Yiwu, the major commercial hub for the ‘small commodity’ trade, and explores the idea of the ‘Russian merchant’ prevalent in Russia today. Rather… read more here.
Keywords: russian merchant; post soviet; trade; merchant ... See more keywords
What’s good to eat? Moral economy of children’s food in Poland’s capital
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DOI: 10.1080/07409710.2021.1901381
Abstract: Abstract The heightened tensions around what children eat, that occur in many places of the world, signify a changing moral economy of children’s food. Together with food, many emotions and sentiments, as well as judgements… read more here.
Keywords: food poland; food; economy; economy children ... See more keywords
Moral economy from above and below: contesting contraction of migrant rights in austerity Britain
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DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2018.1538774
Abstract: ABSTRACT In 2010, Britain’s newly elected Coalition government ushered in a ‘moral mission’ of welfare reform. This paper considers its extension to the management of non-EEA migration and asylum, viewed here in the context of… read more here.
Keywords: migrant rights; economy; contesting contraction; contraction migrant ... See more keywords
Migration infrastructure, moral economy, and intergenerational injustice in mother-and-child migration from the Philippines to Japan
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1967093
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this paper, I discuss how a legal amendment in Japan’s Nationality law, in force since 2009 and celebrated as a victory for children’s rights, soon opened new opportunities for labour brokers to send… read more here.
Keywords: migration; infrastructure moral; migration infrastructure; moral economy ... See more keywords
Capitalist Progress and Moral Economy: Sustaining Employment in India’s Handloom Sector
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DOI: 10.1177/00219096211015270
Abstract: Capitalist progress implies the destruction of the old and uncompetitive sectors and the creation of new ones in their wake. However, in the Global South the loss of jobs in the older sectors is no... read more here.
Keywords: capitalist progress; sustaining employment; progress moral; economy sustaining ... See more keywords
COVID-19 and the modern plantation: Debunking the neoliberal moral economy
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DOI: 10.1177/09213740211014310
Abstract: Plantations have long been justified by moral and racial hierarchies that value specialised, export-oriented producers over domestic or subsistence-oriented producers. In this paper, I associate this value hierarchy with the neoliberal moral economy, explain its… read more here.
Keywords: plantation debunking; modern plantation; covid modern; neoliberal moral ... See more keywords
COVID 19, communal capital and the moral economy: Pacific Islands responses
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DOI: 10.1177/09213740211014312
Abstract: One of the impacts of COVID-19 is that communities have looked for alternative means of survival as the market economy went into a major crisis and people lost their jobs. For many communities in the… read more here.
Keywords: communal capital; covid communal; pacific islands; economy ... See more keywords
Beyond Morality: The Moral Economy Framework and the Fisheries in Mumbai
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DOI: 10.1177/09731741221095291
Abstract: The notion of the moral economy has shifted widely in interpretation over the years. Beginning as a concept to understand shifts in political economy, it has increasingly focused on the role that morality and values… read more here.
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