Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (Millennial Quartet, Volume 3) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822364808 ISBN 13: 9780822364801

Publisher: Duke Univ Pr, 2000

Synopsis

The third installment of the Millennial Quartet, Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism proposes that we are living in an age of revolution in which the dominant forms of capitalist political economy are undergoing major transformations. The intention of this issue is to generate - in as iconoclastic manner as possible - an empirically grounded, conceptual discussion that posits millennial capitalism as an historical formation.

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From the Back Cover

"The savvy success of 'postmodernism, ' that cynical sign of the fin de siecle, has prevented us from re-imagining the present and mapping the future. "Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism "steps into the breach and opens up a new chapter in our understanding of a world of contradictory forces and ambivalent affiliations. When the rapid expansion of free markets sends sovereign states into free fall, and the value of citizenship is measured in the currency of consumption, the time is ripe for a radical rethinking of political passion in the public interest. In a fine double act the Comaroffs, and their gifted contributors, provide us with brilliant ethnographic and ethical accounts of a world-system whose emergent structures are both older and newer than the globalizing jargon of our times."--Homi K. Bhabha, University of Chicago

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0822364808
• ISBN 13: 9780822364801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Comaroff Jean