{"product_id":"the-allure-of-capitalism-an-ethnography-of-management-and-the-global-economy-in-crisis-9781782380658","title":"The Allure of Capitalism: An Ethnography of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe “managerial revolution,” or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions. Studying “transnational” or “global” corporate management at the post-millennium moment provides a suitable focal point from which to investigate globalized (post)modernity and capitalism especially, and as such this book offers an anthropology of global capitalism at its moment of crisis. This study provides ethnographically rich descriptions of managerial practices in a set of international corporate investment projects. Drawing also on historical and statistical data, it renders a comprehensive perspective on management, corporations, and capitalism in the late modern globalized economy. Cross-disciplinary in outlook, the book spans the fields of organization, business, and management, and asserts that now, in this period of financial crisis, is the time for anthropology to yet again engage with political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This study provides ethnographically rich descriptions of managerial practices in a set of international corporate investment projects. Drawing also on historical and statistical data, it renders a comprehensive perspective on management, corporations, and capitalism in the late modern globalized economy. Cross-disciplinary in outlook, the book spans the fields of organization, business, and management, and asserts that now, in this period of financial crisis, is the time for anthropology to yet again engage with political economy.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  International Journal of Anthropology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“… \u003ci\u003ethe book is a piece of extensive scholarship, full of insights that repay the reader's close attention\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e  ·  Journal of Political Power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis is an extraordinary book, huge in every way, one man’s personal synthesis of the world we live in, as seen through his own experience of Norway’s largest business corporation and much, much more. The book and the author have a lot going for them. There are few in-depth anthropological studies of global corporations. Scandinavian anthropology is enjoying a boom and this is reflected in the present study. The author is well-versed in German sources and is open to a very wide range of philosophy, critique, journalism, anthropology and social science\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeith Hart\u003c\/strong\u003e, Goldsmiths College, London\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003e[T]his book is a gem. I like it very much…an excellent blending of genres, approaches and disciplines, fused together by an essentially anthropological perspective. It tells a global story through a number of local intermediations of the most significant Norwegian company, Hydro\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStewart Clegg\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Technology, Sydney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: Investment Projects, Capitalism, and Crisis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCultural analysis of corporate and capitalist organization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHydro investment projects and the reproduction of relations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAt the crossroads of production and finance capital\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tContextualizing the study within Hydro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOrganization of the book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I. CONSTRUCTION AND CULTURES OF CREATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. Situating “Global Corporate Management”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHydro’s ambiguous position\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tInvestment projects as “global assemblages”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEconomic anthropology revisited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManaging man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe neoliberal triumph and tragedy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tExtending anthropological discovering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. Managing in the Middle Kingdom: Three Investment Projects in China\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTechnologies, art and truth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCounterfeiting and strategic secrecy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe GM relay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Mercedes and the carriage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCirculating safety—dodging danger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe carriage cum Mercedes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSocial organization and construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tReverse culture crash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCultural encounters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFrom socio-technical to ontological truth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. Presencing Projects: A Social Reality of Construction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe tragedy of big projects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tKeepers of gold and processes of “structuring”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe ambience of enabling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tProjects as situated potentiality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA set of propositions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe imagination bank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II. HIGH FINANCE AND CONTEMPORARY CRISIS CAPITALISM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. The Turn to Enchantment: Investing in Projects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDecision Gate Four\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCROGIism: Inventing finance control\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBlåruss-blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe surge of “shareholder value”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t“Scientific management”, collaboration and democratization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tProjects as a cultural idiom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. Wagging the Dog: The Financialization of Sociality\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHydro’s financial transformation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe “stock options carnival”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t“Options” in a moral economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA neoliberal dismantling of democratic capitalism?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t“Financial weapons of mass destruction”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManaging “financial risk” in projects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. Money Manager Capitalism and Reverse Redistribution\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFinancialization and international economic relations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tQatalum “money magic”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe dance of debt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe “ancien régime” reinvented\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFinancial neo-imperialism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRadical reverse redistribution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III. IN GOOD COMPANY?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. Directors and Directions of Creation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tReprise and review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHydro and the right kind of globalization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAnti-market capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFinancial entification\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tQualifying capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIncarnations of a different nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. Managing in a Total Context of Crisis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManaging, reasons and rationalizations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMixed regimes of rationality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe medium-range view: Levels in capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDeep crisis in contemporary capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDownfall or a phoenix for the future?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA tragedy or triumph of the commons?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tAppendix\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042210218327,"sku":"9781782380658","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-allure-of-capitalism-an-ethnography-of-management-and-the-global-economy-in-crisis-9781782380658","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}