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Titolo: |
Frontiers of capital [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic reflections on the new economy / / edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey
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Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.3 |
Soggetto topico: | Information technology - Social aspects |
Information society - Economic aspects | |
Capitalism - Social aspects | |
Culture - Economic aspects | |
Social change - Economic aspects | |
Altri autori: |
FisherMelissa S <1962-> (Melissa Suzanne)
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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 / Siobhøn 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. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Ethnographic reflections on the new economy |
Titolo autorizzato: | Frontiers of capital ![]() |
ISBN: | 9780822388234 |
1-283-02249-4 | |
9786613022493 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910780897303321 |
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