A Feast of Flowers : : Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador / / Christopher Krupa.
When Ecuador's cut-flower industry took off in the mid-1980s, it rode a wave of international credit peddling and currency speculation that would lead countries of the Global South into successive debt crises and northern financial firms to fortune and dominion. By the start of the twenty-first...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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