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Neoliberal Frontiers
Brenda Chalfin
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Description for Neoliberal Frontiers
Hardcover. Examines the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. This title discovers an inversion of our assumptions about neoliberal transformation. Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Num Pages: 304 pages, 24 halftones, 3 maps, 1 figure, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
In "Neoliberal Frontiers", Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. From the revealing vantage point of the customs office, Chalfin discovers a fascinating inversion of our assumptions about neoliberal transformation: bureaucrats and local functionaries, government offices, checkpoints, and registries are typically held to be the targets of reform, but Chalfin finds that these figures and sites of authority act as the engine for changes in state sovereignty. Ghana has served as a model of reform ... Read more
In "Neoliberal Frontiers", Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. From the revealing vantage point of the customs office, Chalfin discovers a fascinating inversion of our assumptions about neoliberal transformation: bureaucrats and local functionaries, government offices, checkpoints, and registries are typically held to be the targets of reform, but Chalfin finds that these figures and sites of authority act as the engine for changes in state sovereignty. Ghana has served as a model of reform ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226100593
SKU
V9780226100593
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About Brenda Chalfin
Brenda Chalfin is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida and the author of Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity.
Reviews for Neoliberal Frontiers
"Chalfin's meticulous, innovative, and theoretically sophisticated account of changing customs regimes in contemporary Ghana offers a compelling and revealing analysis of customs practices as a window onto the nature of modern statecraft, the procedures and effects of neoliberalism, and the complex and contradictory faces of sovereignty in twenty-first-century Africa." - Daniel Jordan Smith, Brown University"