Morality, Crisis and Capitalism : : Anthropology for Troubled Times / / ed. by Jon P. Mitchell, Jean-Paul Baldacchino.

'May you live in interesting times’ was made famous by Sir Austen Chamberlain. The premise is that ‘interesting times’ are times of upheaval, conflict and insecurity - troubled times. With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: Anthropology and Its Crises
  • Chapter 1 Moralities, Engagement, Capitalism: Current Challenges for Critical Anthropology
  • Chapter 2 Between Conspiracy and Catastrophe. The Political Unconscious in Malta
  • Chapter 3 Crisis State of Mind: Spaces for Self-Determination in Permanently Troubled Times
  • Chapter 4 The Moria Catastrophe in Greece: An Anthropologically Informed Disaster Analysis of Refugee Reception in Europe
  • Chapter 5 Relevance, Ethics and the ‘Good’ in Anthropology Moving beyond the Anthropology: of Crisis to the Ethical Crises in Anthropology
  • Chapter 6 Higher-Education Crisis, Academic Personhood and Moral Labour
  • Chapter 7 Dilemmas of Sexuality in Malta: Reconciling Catholic and LGBTQ+ Identities
  • Chapter 8 The Will to Risk: Why the Moral Economy Is Not What You Think
  • Index