Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of NeoliberalismJean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: 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? To what extent does it make sense to describe the present juncture in world history as an “age of revolution,” one not unlike 1789–1848 in its transformative potential? In exploring the material and cultural dimensions of the Age of Millennial Capitalism, the contributors interrogate the so-called crisis of the nation-state, how the triumph of the free market obscures rising tides of violence and cultures of exclusion, and the growth of new forms of identity politics. The collection also investigates the tendency of neoliberal capitalism to produce a world of increasing differences in wealth, environmental catastrophes, heightened flows of people and value across space and time, moral panics and social impossibilities, bitter generational antagonisms and gender conflicts, invisible class distinction, and “pariah” forms of economic activity. In the process, the volume opens up an empirically grounded, conceptual discussion about the world-at-large at a particularly momentous historical time—when the social sciences and humanities are in danger of ceding intellectual initiative to the masters of the market and the media. In addition to its crossdisciplinary essays, Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism—originally the third installment of the journal Public Culture’s “Millennial Quartet”—features several photographic essays. The book will interest anthropologists, political geographers, economists, sociologists, and political theorists. Contributors. Scott Bradwell, Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Fernando Coronil, Peter Geschiere, David Harvey, Luiz Paulo Lima, Caitrin Lynch, Rosalind C. Morris, David G. Nicholls, Francis Nyamnjoh, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Paul Ryer, Allan Sekula, Irene Stengs, Michael Storper, Seamus Walsh, Robert P. Weller, Hylton White, Melissa W. Wright, Jeffrey A. Zimmerman |
Contents
First Thoughts on a Second Coming | 1 |
Millennial Transitions | 57 |
Speculations on Capitalisms Nature | 63 |
Globalization Inequality and Consumer Society | 88 |
Murder Women and Maquiladoras | 125 |
Freeway to China Version 2 for Liverpool | 147 |
The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging | 159 |
Millennial Coal Face | 191 |
Modernitys Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand | 192 |
Religion Capitalism and the End of the NationState in Taiwan | 215 |
Millenniums Past Cubas Future? | 240 |
Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia | 241 |
Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils David Harvey | 271 |
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