Comaroff / Weller Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8018-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten

Reihe: a Public Culture Book

A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this collection of essays forms an empirically grounded, conceptual discussion that posits global millennial capitalism as a historical formation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Comaroff, John L.

Comaroff, Jean

Weller, Robert P.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff

Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann

Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism’s Nature / Fernando Coronil

Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper

The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa W. Wright

Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) / Allan Sekula

Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging / Peter Geschiere and Francis Myamnjoh

Millennial Coal Face / Luiz Paulo Lima, Scott Bradwell, and Seamus Walsh

Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris

Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller

Millenniums Past, Cuba’s Future? / Paul Ryer

Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia / Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils / David Harvey

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.John L. Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology, also at the University of Chicago.