Seguros para os pobres: ironias da financeirização da pobreza na África do Sul
Deborah Fromm,
Isabela Vianna Pinho,
Fernanda de Gobbi
Abstract:This text makes a Bibliographical Critique of the book "Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa", written by the Dutch anthropologist Erik Bähre and published in 2020. The book brings an original reflection on the processes of financialisation of everyday life and poverty in the so-called Global South. The sensitive ethnography, conducted in Cape Town, shifts assumptions and brings a relevant contribution to social studies of the economy and the relations between morali… Show more
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