ANTH 4701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Structural Adjustment, Free-Trade Zone, Global City
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Theoretical approach es to the city, anth 4701, fall 2018. Textbook source: politics in the city -inside-out, introducing urban an thropology 1st. Edition by rivke jaf fe, anouk de koning. Post-industrial - mall, revitalized and gentrified downtown, online. Wage laborer has control over time and wages. Increasing displacement of the producer of things: reaganomics, trickle-down economics, neoliberalism, supply side. State is facilitating for business, de-regulating, cutting taxes, making foreign investment easier. State is corrupt in society, so they should not regulate economy. Structural adjustment programs: when countries in global south owed a lot of money; in exchange for alleviating loans, banks cut social spending (schools, hospitals, infrastructure, foreign investment) Flexi-worker: uber, sharing economy, airbnb, service economy, no benefits or living wage. Run by multinationals (not state: entrepreneurial city: denton as commodity. Neoliberal urbanism: new class structure (flexi-workers, post-fordism, consumers and those who provide services. Cities as commodities to be consumed (entrepreneurial cities: rebrand themselves to get investments.
