Frontiers of Capital ：Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy ( e-Duke books scholarly collection. )

Publication subTitle ：Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy

Publication series ：e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Author： Melissa S. Fisher  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2006

E-ISBN: 9780822388234

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822337393

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822337270

Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology

Keyword： Information technology -- Social aspects., Information society -- Economic aspects., Capitalism -- Social aspects., Culture -- Economic aspects., Social change -- Economic aspects.

Language： ENG

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With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the “New Economy” of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. The contributors, most of whom are anthropologists, investigate changes in the practices and interactions of futures traders, Chinese entrepreneurs, residents of French housing projects, women working on Wall Street, cable television programmers, and others.

Some contributors highlight how expedited flows of information allow business professionals to develop new knowledge practices. They analyze dynamics ranging from the decision-making processes of the Federal Reserve Board to the legal maneuvering necessary to buttress a nascent Japanese market in over-the-counter derivatives. Others focus on the social consequences of globalization and new modes of communication, evaluating the introduction of new information technologies into African communities and the collaborative practices of open-source computer programmers. Together the essays suggest that social relations, rather tha

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography

I. Circuits of Knowledge

Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst

Trading on Numbers

Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge

The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting | Greg Downey

Intersecting Geographies? ICTs and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa

II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities

Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai

Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban‘‘Regeneration’’ as Global Urban Strategy

Navigating Wall Street Women’s Gendered Networks in the New Economy

Developing Community Software in a Commodity World |Siobhán O’Mahony

Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony | Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff

Guerrilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism onthe French Urban Periphery

Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge | Saskia Sassen

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