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Producing the Future: Getting To Be British

Author(s) -

Lave Jean

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

antipode

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177

H-Index - 98

eISSN - 1467-8330

pISSN - 0066-4812

DOI - 10.1111/1467-8330.00336

Subject(s) - articulation (sociology) , club , identity (music) , multinational corporation , futures contract , port (circuit theory) , work (physics) , sociology , focus (optics) , political science , parry , gender studies , political economy , politics , law , aesthetics , business , engineering , art , medicine , mechanical engineering , physics , electrical engineering , optics , finance , anatomy , artificial intelligence , computer science

Enduring struggles between different historical capitalisms are concretely instantiated in the British “colony” in Porto, Portugal. In contention is the future of the community and its identity as a venerable port merchant or multinational corporate enclave. Residents, both long‐ and short‐term, work to produce the future place and identity of their children. Church, club, and—above all—schools are the focus of their clashes and also of this essay, as it explores the articulation of practices that help to produce those futures.

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