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In this lucid and challenging ethnography, Muir opens a window into the historical sensibility of inevitable and recurrent crisis and its consequences for the imagination of alternative futures. This book does nothing less than demand we reframe history itself--disallowing comfortable beginnings and endings--and linger in the routines of crisis, querying its aftermaths, and forgoing our obsolete utopias. -- Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine Routine Crisis is a stunning ethnography of the tumultuous lives of Argentineans in economic crisis. Muir's analytical acumen shines through in her semiotically-informed 'listening' to what she calls 'crisis talk'. She deftly shows us how the linguistic and cultural form of crisis talk produces a normalcy of crisis out of the perennial predicament of political economy in Argentina. This is a must-read book on not only how the Global South lives, but also on how ethnography is enriched by the methods of linguistic anthropology. -- Miyako Inoue, Stanford University

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Sarah Muir is assistant professor of anthropology at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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