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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
- Joyful pessimism
  
  Marginality, disengagement, and the doing of nothing
- The ethnographic negative
  
  Capturing the impress of boredom and inactivity
- Too much time
  
  Changing conceptions of boredom, progress, and the future among young men in urban Ethiopia, 2003–2015
Articles
- “Because we are the only ones in the community!”
  
  Protest and daily life in poor South African neighborhoods
- “They don’t even know how to copy”
  
  The discourse on originality in Albania’s art world
- Can a financial bubble burst if no one hears the pop?
  
  Transparency, debt, and the control of price in the Kathmandu land market
- Empowering or impoverishing through credit
  
  Small-scale producers and the Plan Chontalpa in Tabasco, Mexico
- Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?
  
  Contrasting views from Chicago and Managua
Review Article
- Meditations on crises and time in Southeastern Europe

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