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Frontiers of capital : ethnographic reflections on the new economy / edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- 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:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Other Title:
- Ethnographic reflections on the new economy
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-355) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed November 3, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-3727-4
- 1-283-02249-4
- 9786613022493
- OCLC:
- 317331699
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