A collection of ethnographic essays that consider the optimism associated with globaling business and technology developments in the 1990s, from Wall Street IPOs to China's new capitalism.
A collection of ethnographic essays that consider the optimism associated with globaling business and technology developments in the 1990s, from Wall Street IPOs to China's new capitalism.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher 1 I. Circuits of Knowledge Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and 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 / Siobhán O’Mahony 237 Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 267 Guerilla 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 Bibliography 317 Contributors 357 Index 361
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher 1 I. Circuits of Knowledge Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and 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 / Siobhán O’Mahony 237 Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 267 Guerilla 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 Bibliography 317 Contributors 357 Index 361
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