ethnographic reflections on the new economy Fisher, Melissa S. (Melissa Suzanne) 1962- Downey, Greg. ProQuest (Firm) text bibliography Electronic books. ncu Durham Duke University Press 2006 2009 monographic eng

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vi, 381 p. Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher -- I. Circuits of Knowledge. Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus. Trading on Numbers / Caitlin Zaloom. Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge/ Annelise Riles. The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting / Greg Downey. Intersecting Geographies? ICTs and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa/ AbdouMaliq Simone -- II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities. Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai / Aihwa Ong. Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban "Regeneration" as Global Urban Strategy / Neil Smith. Navigating Wall Street Women's Gendered Networks in the New Economy / Melissa S. Fisher. Developing Community Software in a Commodity World / Siobhn O'Mahony. Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff. Guerrilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery / Paul A. Silverstein -- Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge: Local Moments and Electronic Domains / Saskia Sassen. edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey. Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-355) and index. Information technology Social aspects Information society Economic aspects Capitalism Social aspects Culture Economic aspects Social change Economic aspects HC79.I55 F76 2006 9780822388234 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1169288 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1169288 MiAaPQ 090327 20250821124702.0 EBC1169288 eng