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Informationen zum Autor Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey, eds. Klappentext A collection of ethnographic essays that consider the optimism associated with globaling business and technology developments in the 1990s, from Wall Street IPOs to China's new capitalism. Zusammenfassung Ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher 1 I. Circuits of Knowledge Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus 33 Trading on Numbers / Caitlin Zaloom 58 Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge / Annelise Riles 86 The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting / Greg Downey 108 Intersecting Geographies? ICTS and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone 133 II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai / Aihwa Ong 163 Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban “Regeneration” as Global Urban Strategy / Neil Smith 191 Navigating Wall Street Women’s Gendered Networks in the New Economy / Melissa S. Fisher 209 Developing Community Software in a Commodity World / Siobhán O’Mahony 237 Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 267 Guerilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery / Paul A. Silverstein 282 Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge / Saskia Sassen 305 Bibliography 317 Contributors 357 Index 361
