{"product_id":"clawing-back-deborah-james-9781503642355","title":"Clawing Back: Redistribution in Precarious Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade. In settings where previous political regimes are reformed, or toppled and replaced by new ones, redistribution can also be a policy specifically oriented at redress: one exercised at the formal level of policy. Drawing on a comparative ethnography in South Africa and the United Kingdom \u003ci\u003eClawing Back\u003c\/i\u003e explores how notions of reallocation and pay-out are intimately connected with those of compensation for a loss. Where financialization is accompanied by increased informalization, redistribution can equally involve the market as well as kinship and social networks. Drawing on a rich ethnography of the human relationships at the center of redistribution, Deborah James shows how borrowing can provide negotiation opportunities to wage earners and welfare beneficiaries alike: they make use of debt to constitute relations and futures, to engage with the state, to convert between commodified and non-commodified relationships. Rather than suggesting that financialization is serving either a totally negative or wholly beneficial purpose, James posits a different way of visualizing the relationship between the finance industry and the world of everyday needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503642356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503642355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Deborah James","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46311273922815,"sku":"9781503642355","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c68f7b1-db4f-4570-84e0-edbc9a0b1a72.jpg?v=1730889038","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/clawing-back-deborah-james-9781503642355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}