Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia 1st Edition Balihar Sanghera

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030763021
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030763022
• Author(s): Balihar Sanghera, Elmira Satybaldieva

This book explains and evaluates today’s economic, political, social and ecological crises through the lens of rentier capitalism and countermovements in Central Asia. Over the last three decades the rich and powerful have increased their wealth and political power to the detriment of social and environmental well-being. But their activities have not gone unchecked. Grassroots activism has resisted the harmful and damaging effects of the neoliberal commodification of things.

Providing a much-needed theorisation of the moral economy and politics of rent, this book offers in-depth case studies on finance, real estate and natural resources in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The authors show the mechanisms of rent extraction, their moral justifications and legitimacy, and social struggles against them.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Theorising Rent Extraction
2. The Rise of the Rentier Class and Widening Social Inequalities
3. Moral Economy, the State and Social Movements
Part II. Interrogating the Regime of Rent and Its Justifications
4. Financial Institutions: Interest, Power and Moral Justifications
5. Property Development: Improperty, Plutocracy and Criminogency
6. Natural Resources: Transnational Capital, Constitutionalism and Environmental Harms
Part III. Social Discontent Over Rentierism
7. The Right to the City: The Land and Housing Movements
8. Confronting the Power of Money: The Anti-Debt Movements
9. Fighting the Commodification of the Extractive Industries: The Labour and Environmental Movements
Part IV. Evaluating Rentier Capitalism
10. Critical Discussion: Neoliberalism, Social Suffering and Resistance
11. Conclusions

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