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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Fisher, Melissa S. (Melissa Suzanne), 1962-
Downey, Greg.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Information technology--Social aspects.
Information technology.
Information society--Economic aspects.
Information society.
Capitalism--Social aspects.
Capitalism.
Culture--Economic aspects.
Culture.
Social change--Economic aspects.
Social change.
Physical Description:
vi, 381 pages ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Ethnographic reflections on the new economy
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Contents:
Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey, Melissa S. Fisher 1
I Circuits of Knowledge
Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes, 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 / Siobhan O'Mahony 237
Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff 267
Guerrilla 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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-355) and index.
ISBN:
0822337274
0822337398
9780822337270
9780822337393
9780822337 270
OCLC:
63808113
Publisher Number:
9780822337270
9780822337393

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