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Further Reading


Global Cities/Digital Networks

  • The global cities reader / edited by Neil Brenner and Roger Keil Publication London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
  • Harvey, David. 2003. "The City as a Body Politic," in Schneider, Jane and Ida Susser, eds. 2003. Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World. Berg.
  • Herman and McChesney. Global Media [lays out history of 1980s-90s media deregulation and conglomeration], Global transformations reader.
  • Humphrey, Caroline. 2003. "Rethinking Infrastructure: Siberian Cities and the Great Freeze of January 2001," in Schneider, Jane and Ida Susser, eds. 2003. Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World. Berg.
  • Larkin, Brian. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy, Public Culture.
  • ----------------. Pirate Infrastructures.
  • ----------------. Signal and noise : media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria / Brian Larkin Publication Durham : Duke University Press, 2008
  • Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen, ed.s. Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • Latour, Bruno.  Science in Action
  • -----------------.  We have Never been Modern
  • -----------------. 2005. Reassembling the Social:An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford U Press.
  • Oppenheim, Robert. 2007. Actor-Network Theory and Anthropology after Science, Technology and Society, Anthropological Theory 7.
  • Riles, Annelise. 2000. Network Inside Out.
  • Sassen, Saskia. "Electronic markets and activist networks: The weight of social logics in digital formations", in Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, eds. Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)
  • ----------------. "Mediating practices : women with/in cyberspace", in eds. John Armitage and Joanne Roberts, Living with cyberspace : technology & society in the 21st century (London : Athlone ; New York : Continuum, 2002) 
  • -----------------. 1991. The global city : New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.
  • Schneider, Jane and Ida Susser, eds. 2003. Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World. Berg.

Anthropology and Finance

  • Anthropology News Special Issue on 2008 Global Economic Crisis (Oct 2009)
  • Cultural Anthropology Online special issue on "Theorizing the Contemporary: Finance", edited by Bill Maurer, June 2012.
  • Graeber, David. 2011. Debt: the First 5000 Years.
  • ------------------. 2001. Toward an anthropological theory of value : the false coin of our own dreams. New York : Palgrave. (bookstore)
  • Stephen Gudeman (2008) "Watching Wall Street: A Global Earthquake", Anthropology Today, Nov. 2008.
  • Guyer, Jane. 2004. Marginal Gains.
  • David Harvey (2009) "Is this really the end of neoliberalism?" [on the 2008 wall street crash] (Counterpunch, 2009).
  • Douglas Holmes and George E. Marcus "Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography" in Global Assemblages pp. 235-252
  • Benjamin Lee and Edward LiPuma "Cultures of Circulation: The Imaginations of Modernity" Public Culture, Winter 2002; 14: pp. 191 - 213
  • Maurer, Bill. The Anthropology of Money. Annual Rev. Anth.
  • Miyazaki, Hirokazu and Annelise Riles. 2005. "Failure as an Endpoint," In Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Ouroussoff, Alexandra. 2012. Wall Street at War. Polity Press (based on over 6 years fieldwork in powerful corporations and credit rating agencies).
  • Olds, Kris and Nigel Thrift. 2005. "Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism--on a global scale, In Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Pascal, Ulysses. 2011. Beyond synchronicity : the semiotics of the human in high frequency trading on Wall Street. Reed College Senior Thesis.
  • Janet Roitman, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa. Princeton University Press, 2004.
  • Zaloom, Caitlin. "The Derivative World," The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2010

------------------. "The City as Value Locus: Markets, Technologies, and the Problem of Worth," Thomas Bender and Ignacio Farias eds. Urban Assemblages. pp. 251-267, New York: Routledge (2009).

------------------. "How to Read the Future: The Yield Curve, Affect, and Financial Prediction," Public Culture 21(2): 243-266, Spring 2009.

------------------. "Markets and Machines: Work in the Technological Sensoryscapes of Finance," American Quarterly 58(3): 815-837, September 2006.

------------------. "The Discipline of Speculators," Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier eds. Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, pp. 253-269, New York: Blackwell, 2005.

------------------. "The Productive Life of Risk," Cultural Anthropology 19(3): 365-391, August 2004.

------------------. "Time, Space, and Technology in Financial Networks," Manuel Castells ed. The Network Society: A Cross-cultural Perspective, pp. 197-213, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004.

------------------. "Ambiguous Numbers: Trading Technologies and Interpretation in Financial Markets," American Ethnologist 30(2): 258-272, May 2003. --- In Frontiers of Capital, Melissa Fisher and Greg Downey (eds.), Durham: Duke University Press (Forthcoming 2006).

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