TY - BOOK AU - Narotzky,Susana AU - Smith,Gavin A. TI - Immediate struggles: people, power, and place in rural Spain SN - 9780520939011 AV - HN590.B24 N37 2006eb U1 - 306.3/60946765 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Ethnology KW - Spain KW - Bajo Segura KW - Ethnologie KW - Espagne KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Cultural Policy KW - Popular Culture KW - Economic history KW - fast KW - Rural conditions KW - Bajo Segura (Spain) KW - Economic conditions KW - agriculture KW - alienation KW - cultural practices KW - ethnographers KW - ethnography KW - europe KW - global economy KW - globalization KW - government and governing KW - historians KW - historical perspective KW - industrial economy KW - informal economy KW - nonfiction KW - oral histories KW - political economies KW - political economy KW - power struggles KW - regional economies KW - rural landscape KW - social impact KW - spain KW - spanish culture KW - spanish politics KW - spanish society KW - vega baja region KW - working class N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Dramatis Personae; 1 Toward an Anthropological Framework for Studying Contemporary Europe; 2 The Histories of the Regional Political Economy; 3 Regulating Social Life through Uncertainty and Fear; 4 From Insecurity to Dependency; 5 From Insecurity to Movement; 6 Families and Entrepreneurs; 7 Flexible Structures and Torn Lives; 8 The Culture of Politics, the Politics of Culture; 9 The Power of Ethnography; Notes; References Cited; Index N2 - Offers a study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, tackling the question of how to understand the alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. It examines the divide between government and its citizens in a region that has transformed from a primarily agricultural economy to an industrial one UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=159390 ER -