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Frontiers of capital [electronic resource] : ethnographic reflections on the new economy / edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collectionPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.Description: vi, 381 pISBN:
  • 9780822388234
Other title:
  • Ethnographic reflections on the new economy
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HC79.I55 F76 2006
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-355) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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