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 than becoming less relevant in the high-tech age, have
become more important than ever. This finding dovetails with the
thinking of many corporations, which increasingly employ
anthropologists to study and explain the “local” cultural
practices of their own workers and consumers. Frontiers of Capital
signals the wide-ranging role of anthropology in explaining the
social and cultural contours of the New Economy. Contributors. Jean
Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Greg Downey, Melissa S. Fisher, Douglas
R. Holmes, George E. Marcus, Siobhán O’Mahony, Aihwa Ong,
Annelise Riles, Saskia Sassen, Paul A. Silverstein, AbdouMaliq
Simone, Neil Smith, Caitlin Zaloom
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2006 |
Firstpublished: |
September 2006 |
Editors: |
Melissa S. Fisher
• Greg Downey
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
392 |
Edition: |
New Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-3739-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8223-3739-8 |
Barcode: |
9780822337393 |
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