{"product_id":"frontiers-of-capital-9780822337393","title":"Frontiers of Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFrontiers of Capital \u003c\/i\u003eis a synthetic state-of-the-art account of anthropology’s contribution to thinking about the current economic moment. The essays are—without exception—brilliant ethnographic excursions into the terrain of what the editors call the ‘New Economy.’ Together they enable an understanding of the post–Cold War, neoliberal, information-saturated, finance-capital-dominated world we inhabit.”—Charles Piot, author of \u003ci\u003eRemotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Capital will go anywhere if there is a profit to be turned or value to be found. That is its nature. This important collection provides a further chapter in this natural history, but one which has a much greater range, not least because it deploys a range of ethnographic techniques which allow it to cover the full spectrum of the ways and wheres in which the global economy works. An important and inspirational book which is willing to tread the delicate dividing line between within and without the system.”—Nigel Thrift, author of \u003ci\u003eKnowing Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n interesting and provocative set of chapters. . . . [T]he strength of the collection lies in the ways in which the authors weave clear ethnographic discussions with rich theoretical concerns. Combined ethnography and theory allow us to more clearly understand the give and take that exists between the creators and users of new technologies.” -- Jeffrey H. Cohen * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography \/ Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Circuits of Knowledge \u003cbr\u003e Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst \/ Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus 33\u003cbr\u003e Trading on Numbers \/ Caitlin Zaloom 58\u003cbr\u003e Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge \/ Annelise Riles 86\u003cbr\u003e The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting \/ Greg Downey 108\u003cbr\u003e Intersecting Geographies? ICTS and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa \/ AbdouMaliq Simone 133\u003cbr\u003e II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities \u003cbr\u003e Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai \/ Aihwa Ong 163\u003cbr\u003e Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban “Regeneration” as Global Urban Strategy \/ Neil Smith 191\u003cbr\u003e Navigating Wall Street Women’s Gendered Networks in the New Economy \/ Melissa S. Fisher 209\u003cbr\u003e Developing Community Software in a Commodity World \/ Siobhán O’Mahony 237\u003cbr\u003e Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony \/ Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 267\u003cbr\u003e Guerilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery \/ Paul A. Silverstein 282\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge \/ Saskia Sassen 305\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 317\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 357\u003cbr\u003e Index 361","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406041293143,"sku":"9780822337393","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337393.jpg?v=1730494341","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/frontiers-of-capital-9780822337393","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}