Capitalization: A Cultural Guide
Fabian Muniesa
(1)
,
Liliana Doganova
(1)
,
Horacio Ortiz
(2)
,
Álvaro Pina-Stranger
(3)
,
Florence Paterson
(1)
,
Alaric Bourgoin
(4)
,
Véra Ehrenstein
(5)
,
Pierre-André Juven,
(6)
,
David Pontille
(1)
,
Basak Saraç-Lesavre
(1)
,
Guillaume Yon
(1)
1
CSI i3 -
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3
2 IRISSO - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales
3 CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management
4 HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal
5 Goldsmiths College - Goldsmiths, University of London
6 IFRIS - Institut francilien recherche, innovation et société
2 IRISSO - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales
3 CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management
4 HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal
5 Goldsmiths College - Goldsmiths, University of London
6 IFRIS - Institut francilien recherche, innovation et société
Fabian Muniesa
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Liliana Doganova
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Horacio Ortiz
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Álvaro Pina-Stranger
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Florence Paterson
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Véra Ehrenstein
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Pierre-André Juven,
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Résumé
What does it mean to turn something into capital? What does considering things as assets entail? What does the prevalence of an investor’s viewpoint require? What is this culture of valuation that asks that we capitalize on everything? How can we make sense of the traits, necessities and upshots of this pervasive cultural condition? This book takes the reader to an ethnographic stroll down the trail of capitalization. Start-up companies, research centers, consulting firms, state enterprises, investment banks, public administrations: the territory can certainly prove strange and disorienting at first sight, with its blurred boundaries between private appropriation and public interest, economic sanity and moral breakdown, the literal and the metaphorical, the practical and the ideological. The traveler certainly requires a resolutely pragmatist attitude, and a taste for the meanders of signification. But in all the sites in which we set foot in this inquiry we recognize a recurring semiotic complex: a scenario of valuation in which things signify by virtue of their capacity to become assets in the eye of an imagined investor. A ground-breaking anthropological investigation on the culture of contemporary capitalism, this work directs attention to the largely unexplored problem of capitalization and offers a critical resource for current debates on neoliberalism and financialization.
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Sociologie Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie Economies et finances Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences Gestion et managementFormat du dépôt | Notice |
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Capitalization: A Cultural Guide
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What does it mean to turn something into capital? What does considering things as assets entail? What does the prevalence of an investor’s viewpoint require? What is this culture of valuation that asks that we capitalize on everything? How can we make sense of the traits, necessities and upshots of this pervasive cultural condition? This book takes the reader to an ethnographic stroll down the trail of capitalization. Start-up companies, research centers, consulting firms, state enterprises, investment banks, public administrations: the territory can certainly prove strange and disorienting at first sight, with its blurred boundaries between private appropriation and public interest, economic sanity and moral breakdown, the literal and the metaphorical, the practical and the ideological. The traveler certainly requires a resolutely pragmatist attitude, and a taste for the meanders of signification. But in all the sites in which we set foot in this inquiry we recognize a recurring semiotic complex: a scenario of valuation in which things signify by virtue of their capacity to become assets in the eye of an imagined investor. A ground-breaking anthropological investigation on the culture of contemporary capitalism, this work directs attention to the largely unexplored problem of capitalization and offers a critical resource for current debates on neoliberalism and financialization.
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Auteur(s) |
Fabian Muniesa
1
, Liliana Doganova
1
, Horacio Ortiz
2
, Álvaro Pina-Stranger
3
, Florence Paterson
1
, Alaric Bourgoin
4
, Véra Ehrenstein
5
, Pierre-André Juven,
6
, David Pontille
1
, Basak Saraç-Lesavre
1
, Guillaume Yon
1
1
CSI i3 -
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3
( 445513 )
- 60 Boulevard Saint Michel 75006 PARIS
- France
2
IRISSO -
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales
( 184082 )
- Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 PARIS Cedex 16
- France
3
CREM -
Centre de recherche en économie et management
( 894 )
- 7 place Hoche, BP 86514
35065 RENNES CEDEX
- France
4
HEC Montréal -
HEC Montréal
( 304765 )
- 3000 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC H3T 2A7
- Canada
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Goldsmiths College -
Goldsmiths, University of London
( 470821 )
- Royaume-Uni
6
IFRIS -
Institut francilien recherche, innovation et société
( 111161 )
- IFRIS / UPEMLV Cité Descartes 5 boulevard Descartes Champs sur Marne 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2
- France
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Anglais
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ISBN |
9782356714220
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2017
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Lieu de publication |
Paris
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URL éditeur |
http://www.pressesdesmines.com/capitalization.html
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Capital, Capitalization, Financialization, Anthropology, Cultural Economy
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