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Economies at War

What is the "economy" in war economy?

Schluwa Sama looks at the term war economy, and the different approaches to it. She follows anthropological definitions of economy that are people-centered and focus on the way people make a living rather than neoliberal definitions of economy in the service of capitalist profitmaking. Within the everyday, then, war itself might become a means to make a living.

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