Volume 2017 (2017): Issue 78 (Jun 2017): Boredom after the global financial crisis: From privilege to precarity. Guest Editors: Marguerite van den Berg and Bruce O’Neill

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Theme Section: Boredom after the global financial crisis
- Introduction
  
  Rethinking the class politics of boredom
  
  By: Marguerite van den Berg and Bruce O’Neill
  
  Pages: 1–8
- Joyful pessimism
  
  Marginality, disengagement, and the doing of nothing
  
  By: Martin Demant Frederiksen
  
  Pages: 9–22
- The ethnographic negative
  
  Capturing the impress of boredom and inactivity
  
  By: Bruce O’Neill
  
  Pages: 23–37
- Too much time
  
  Changing conceptions of boredom, progress, and the future among young men in urban Ethiopia, 2003–2015
  
  By: Daniel Mains
  
  Pages: 38–51
Articles
- “Because we are the only ones in the community!”
  
  Protest and daily life in poor South African neighborhoods
  
  By: Jérôme Tournadre
  
  Pages: 52–64
- “They don’t even know how to copy”
  
  The discourse on originality in Albania’s art world
  
  By: Sofia Kalo
  
  Pages: 65–76
- Can a financial bubble burst if no one hears the pop?
  
  Transparency, debt, and the control of price in the Kathmandu land market
  
  By: Andrew Haxby
  
  Pages: 77–89
- Empowering or impoverishing through credit
  
  Small-scale producers and the Plan Chontalpa in Tabasco, Mexico
  
  By: Gisela Lanzas and Matthew Whittle
  
  Pages: 90–101
- Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?
  
  Contrasting views from Chicago and Managua
  
  By: Dennis Rodgers
  
  Pages: 102–114
Review Article
- Meditations on crises and time in Southeastern Europe
  
  By: Janka Hrckova
  
  Pages: 115–119

Volume 2017 (2017): Issue 78 (Jun 2017): Boredom after the global financial crisis: From privilege to precarity. Guest Editors: Marguerite van den Berg and Bruce O’Neill

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