Gift Exchange

The Transnational History of a Political Idea

AvGrégoire Mallard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and international law. Still, Mauss's reflections were deeply tied to the context of interwar Europe and the French colonial expansion. Their normative dimension has been profoundly questioned after the age of decolonization. A century after Mauss, we may ask: what is the relevance of his ideas on gift exchanges and international solidarity? By tracing how Mauss's theoretical and normative ideas inspired prominent thinkers and government officials in France and Algeria, from Pierre Bourdieu to Mohammed Bedjaoui, Grégoire Mallard adds a building block to our comprehension of the role that anthropology, international law, and economics have played in shaping international economic governance from the age of European colonization to the latest European debt crisis. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-14
Mått:157 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108489690

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Grégoire Mallard is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute (Geneva). He is the author of Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture and co-editor of Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets. His publications focus on prediction, knowledge and ignorance in global governance.

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'Against the usual view of Marcel Mauss as an armchair anthropologist, secluded in the higher reaches of the academia, Grégoire Mallard explores the many social milieus in which Mauss operated, including early twentieth-century socialist politics, journalism, high finance, and the emerging state technocracy. Mallard shows how Mauss's classic essay, The Gift, offered a complex worldview that had a profound influence on generations of politicians and public intellectuals involved in everything from the debate on German reparations to pre-war colonial politics in France, the North-South conflict post-1960, and current sovereign debt issues. In short, this is a most remarkable book, extremely well researched and elegantly written.' Jerome Sgard, Sciences-Po Paris

Innehållsförteckning

1. The history of a political idea: gifts, trusts, reparations and other fetishes of international solidarity; 2. The cast: Marcel Mauss and his legacy in the French fields of power; 3. The gift and European solidarity: Marcel Mauss and the politics of reparation in interwar Europe; 4. The gift as colonial ideology: Marcel Mauss and French colonial policy before and after the Great War; 5. Mauss's disciples in Algeria: the anthropology of the gift and the shock of decolonization; 6. Decolonizing the gift: nationalization and sovereign debt cancellation in North-South relations; 7. International solidarity and gift exchange in the Eurozone.