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Christopher Krupa: A feast of flowers review essays.

A feast of flowers is simultaneously grounded in the reality of place and the practice of face-to-face social relations while at the same time being thoroughly shaped by detailed attention to actual global geopolitical economy—not just vague references to globalization, but a thorough engagement wit...

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Published in:Focaal no. 97; pp. 117 - 130
Main Authors: Smith, Gavin, Striffler, Steve, Eiss, Paul, de Zaldívar, Victor Bretón Solo, Krupa, Christopher
Format: Article
Published: Berghahn Books 2023
Subjects:
Ecuador
Fasts & feasts
Developing countries
Flowers
Capital financing
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:A feast of flowers is simultaneously grounded in the reality of place and the practice of face-to-face social relations while at the same time being thoroughly shaped by detailed attention to actual global geopolitical economy—not just vague references to globalization, but a thorough engagement with, in this case, finance capital and the way debt has driven Northern ambitions and generated a specific kind of social world in the Ecuador of the Global South.