The Economy of Hope

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2016

The Economy of Hope

Edited by: Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293500

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Hope is an integral part of social life. Yet, hope has not been studied systematically in the social sciences. Editors Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg have collected essays that investigate hope in a broad range of socioeconomic situations and phenomena across time and space and from a variety of disciplinary vantage points. Contributors survey the resilience of hope, and the methodological implications of studying hope, in such experiences as farm collectivization in mid-twentieth-century communist Romania, changing employment relations under Japan's neoliberal reform during the first decade of the twenty-first century, the dynamics of innovation and replication in a West African niche economy, and Barack Obama's 2008 political campaign of hope in the midst of the unfolding global financial crisis.
The Economy of Hope shifts the analytic of anthropological and sociological investigations from knowledge to hope, presents case studies on the loss of collective hope, and concludes by offering techniques for replicating hope. In the hands of Miyazaki and Swedberg and their distinguished contributors, hope becomes not only a method of knowledge but also an essential framework for the sociocultural analysis of economic phenomena.

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"An important theoretical contribution to the social sciences, religion, philosophy, and critical legal studies, The Economy of Hope is not aiming to be a phenomenology of hope—indeed, it seems consciously to avoid pinning hope down that way—yet the combined essays very clearly lead us to consider the vectors, spaces, and reflexivities of hope as method."—Nancy Ries, Colgate University

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The Economy of Hope: An Introduction Hirokazu Miyazaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. A Sociological Approach to Hope in the Economy Richard Swedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 2. Mercantilist-Utopian Projects in Eighteenth- Century Sweden Richard Swedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter 3. Hope Turned Upside Down: How the Prospects for a Communist Utopia Were Dashed in 1950s Romania Katherine Verdery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 4. Hope and Society in Japan Yuji Genda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 5. Is the Law Hopeful? Annelise Riles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 6. When and How Does Hope Spring Eternal in Personal and Popular Economics? Thoughts from West Africa to America Jane I. Guyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 7. Obama’s Hope: An Economy of Belief and Substance Hirokazu Miyazaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages
- Main content: 208
Illustrations
- Other: 5 illus.

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Published: April 10, 2017
ISBN: 9780812293500