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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812882003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006

ISBN

9780822388234

1-283-02249-4

9786613022493

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Collana

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Altri autori (Persone)

FisherMelissa S <1962-> (Melissa Suzanne)

DowneyGreg

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Information technology - Social aspects

Information society - Economic aspects

Capitalism - Social aspects

Culture - Economic aspects

Social change - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-355) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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