Trading on Numbers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography 1
5. I. Circuits of knowledge
6. Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst 33
7. Trading on Numbers 58
8. Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge 86
9. The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting 108
10. Intersecting Geographies? icts and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa 133
11. II. New subjects, novel socialities
12. Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai 163
13. Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban ‘‘Regeneration’’ as Global Urban Strategy 191
14. Navigating Wall Street Women’s Gendered Networks in the New Economy 209
15. Developing Community Software in a Commodity World 237
16. Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony 267
17. Guerrilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery 282
18. Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge 305
19. Bibliography 317
20. Contributors 357
21. Index 361