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A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this collection of essays forms an empirically grounded, conceptual discussion that posits global millennial capitalism as a historical formation.
List of contents
Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann
Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism’s Nature / Fernando Coronil
Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper
The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa W. Wright
Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) / Allan Sekula
Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging / Peter Geschiere and Francis Myamnjoh
Millennial Coal Face / Luiz Paulo Lima, Scott Bradwell, and Seamus Walsh
Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris
Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller
Millenniums Past, Cuba’s Future? / Paul Ryer
Consuming
Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia / Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils / David Harvey
Contributors
Index
About the author
Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
John L. Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology, also at the University of Chicago.
Summary
How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously local and translocal forms? This title deals with these questions.
