[Linganth] Sarah Muir's new book, Routine Crisis

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Sarah Muir's new book is now out -- and CaMP anthropology blog has an 
interview with Sarah
if you would like to know more.

https://campanthropology.org <https://campanthropology.org>

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:

Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a 
long history of economic volatility. In 2001–2002, a financial crisis 
led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic currency 
devaluation, the largest sovereign default in world history, and the 
flight of foreign capital. Protests and street blockades punctuated a 
moment of profound political uncertainty, epitomized by the rapid 
succession of five presidents in four months. Since then, Argentina has 
fought economic fires on every front, from inflation to the cost of 
utilities and depressed industrial output. When things clearly aren't 
working, when the constant churning of booms and busts makes life almost 
unlivable, how does our deeply compromised order come to seem so 
inescapable? How does critique come to seem so blunt, even as crisis 
after crisis appears on the horizon? What are the lived effects of that 
sense of inescapability?

Anthropologist Sarah Muir offers a cogent meditation on the limits of 
critique at this historical moment, drawing on deep experience in 
Argentina but reflecting on a truly global condition. If we feel things 
are being upended in a manner that is ongoing, tumultuous, and harmful, 
what would we need to do—and what would we need to give up—to usher in a 
revitalized critique for today's world?/Routine Crisis/is an original 
provocation and a challenge to think beyond the limits of exhaustion and 
reimagine a form of criticism for the twenty-first century.
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