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For more on these topics and debates, consult these sources:

The Corporation

  • Bakan, Joel. 2004. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
  • Nace, Ted. 2003. Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of America. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

Neoliberal States and Corporations

  • Abeles, Marc. 2006. Globalization, Power and Survival: An Anthropological Perspective. Anthropological Quarterly 79(3).
  • Asad, Talal. 2004. Where are the Margins of the State? in Das and Poole, eds. Anthropology in the Margins of the State, SAR Press.
  • Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and “Neo-liberalism, the Utopia (Becoming Reality) of Unlimited Exploitation.” In Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market. New York: The New Press, 1998, pp. 1-10, 94-105.
  • Neil Brenner, Beyond State-Centrism? Space, Territoriality, & Geographical Scale in Globalization Studies. Theory & Society 28(1):39–78, 1999.
  • Chalfin, Brenda. “Global Customs Regimes and the Traffic in Sovereignty: Enlarging the Anthropology of the State.” In Current Anthropology, April 2006, 47(2):243-262.
  • Coronil, Fernando. 2000. Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism:Speculations on Capitalism’s Nature. Public Culture12(2): 351–374. Available online.
  • Das and Poole. 2004. State and its Margins: Comparative Ethnographies. in Das and Poole, eds. Anthropology in the Margins of the State, SAR Press.
  • Ferguson, James. 2006. Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond 'the State and Civil Society in the Study of African Politics," in Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Duke.
  • Foucault (2000) "Governmentality" in The Foucault effect: studies in governmentality: with two lectures by and an interview with Michel Foucault , p. 87-104
  • Friedman, Jonathan. 2003. Globalization, Dis-integration, Re-organization: The Transformations of Violence. in Friedman, ed., Globalization, The State, and Violence. Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Akhil Gupta and Ferguson, James (2002) "Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality". American Ethnologist 29 (4) 981 - 1002
  • Hansen, Thoman Blom and Finn Stepputat. “Sovereignty Revisited.” Annual Review of Anthropology. 2006. 35:295–315.
  • Harvey, David. 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity.
  • Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 1-4. (ch. 1 on Freedom starts with neoliberal state or ch. 4 The Neoliberal State, p 68-86)
  • Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007.
  • Lemke, Thomas. (2001) "'The Birth of Bio-politics': Michel Foucault's Lectures at the College de France on neo-liberal governmentality" In: Economy and Society 30 (2)
  • Ong, Aihwa. Intro., Ch.s 1-2, Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke, 1999.
  • --------------. “Graduated Sovereignty.” In Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty. Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 75-96.
  • Sassen, Saskia. “Denationalizing State Agendas and Privatizing Norm-Making.” In Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 222-276.
  • Trouillot, M.R. 2001. The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization. Current Anthropology 42(1):125-138.

Outsourcing Labor and Production

  • Sassen, Saskia. "Toward a Feminist Analytics of the Global Economy," Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. NY: The New Press, 1998, p. 81-100. (ereserve, book reserve)
  • Biao, Xiang. “Prologue,” “Introduction,” The World System of Body Shopping,” “Ending Remarks.” In Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp.xiii-xix, 1-12, 100-115.
  • Dunn, Elizabeth. Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004, pp. 1-27, 94-129.
  • Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. “Maquilladoras: The View from Inside,” “Epilogue.” For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico’s Frontier. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983, pp. 108-132, 190-194.
  • Freeman, Carla. “Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbados’ Off-Shore Pink-collar Sector.” Cultural Anthropology, 1993, 8(2):169-186.
  • Gunewardena, Nandina and Ann Kingsolver, eds. 2007. The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities. SAR press.
  • Pun Ngai. Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace. Duke University Press, 2005, p 1-48, 76-108.
  • Sassen, Saskia. “Notes on the Incorporation of Third World Women into Wage Labor through Immigration and Offshore Production.” In Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. New York: New Press, 1999, pp. 111-134.
  • Watson, James, ed. McDonald's in Asia.

Neoliberal Temporalities

  • E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer "Time and Space" (pp. 94-108)
  • E.P. Thompson, 1967. "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism" Past & Present 38:56-97.
  • Fabian Time and the Other
  • Jane Guyer (2007) "Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time" American Ethnologist, Vol. 34, No.3, pp. 409--421,
  • Halberstam, Judith/Jack. 2005. In a queer time and place : transgender bodies, subcultural lives. New York : New York University Press.
  • David Harvey "Time-Space Compression" in The Condition of Postmodernity
  • Rabinow, Paul. Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp.1-11, 33-50. (Biehl uses)
  • Munn 1992 The Cultural Anthropology of Time
  • Richard Sennett (2000) "Flexible: the restructuring of time" in The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences o/Work in the New Capitalism
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