Fisher / Downey Frontiers of Capital

Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8823-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Melissa S.

Downey, Greg

Weitere Mitwirkende

Holmes, Douglas R.

Marcus, George E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher 1

I. Circuits of Knowledge

Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus 33

Trading on Numbers / Caitlin Zaloom 58

Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge / Annelise Riles 86

The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting / Greg Downey 108

Intersecting Geographies? ICTS and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone 133

II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities

Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai / Aihwa Ong 163

Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban “Regeneration” as Global Urban Strategy / Neil Smith 191

Navigating Wall Street Women’s Gendered Networks in the New Economy / Melissa S. Fisher 209

Developing Community Software in a Commodity World / Siobhán O’Mahony 237

Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 267

Guerilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery / Paul A. Silverstein 282

Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge / Saskia Sassen 305

Bibliography 317

Contributors 357

Index 361

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa S. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University. Greg Downey is Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie University.Greg Downey is Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie University.