Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River

by Laura Bear

Book Overview

Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river pilots on the Hooghly River, a tributary of the Ganges that flows into the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean. Through their accounts, Bear traces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804795533
• ISBN13: 9780804795531
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"