Frontiers of capital : ethnographic reflections on the new economy / / edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey
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| Titolo: |
Frontiers of capital : 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)
DowneyGreg
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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 / 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. |
| 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.: | 9910812882003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.