Clawing Back: Redistribution in Precarious Times

by Deborah James

The impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade. In settings where previous political regimes are reformed, or toppled and replaced by new ones, redistribution can also be a policy specifically oriented at redress, one exercised at the formal level of policy. Drawing on a comparative ethnography in South Africa and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503642879
• ISBN13: 9781503642874
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages