Noelle Stout is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba and director of the documentary Luchando.

List of Illustrations
Introduction. Once Sold, Twice Taken: A Life Undone
1. Dream It, Own It: Genealogies of Speculation
and Dispossession in the Valley
Landscapes
2. Put Out: Bank Seizure at the Poverty Line
3. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Relocating the Middle Class
Documents
4. Can't Work the System: The Troubled Sympathies of Corporate
Bureaucrats
5. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Shifting Moral
Economies of Debt Refusal
Drawings
Conclusion. You Can't Go Home Again
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
References
Index