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... 2018 Lagos pepperfarm megacity imaginative capital References Bamidele Ololade . “ Beyond Yellow Buses ”. In Lagos: A City at Work , edited by Tejuoso Olakunle , 7 – 10 . Lagos : Glendora Books , 2005 . Connors Will . “ Opulence and Chaos Meet in an African...

...Ravinder Kaur When and how did the third world transform into an emerging market in the global economy? Kaur addresses this ongoing reinscription of the old third world as market, unpacking new modes of imagination and knowledge at the heart of this historical shift. She argues that if the quest...

... of politics deployed in and through Hindi cinema. The film provides an eclectic mishmash of Gandhian satyagraha and revolutionary rhetoric, a combination that resonates ironically within a neoliberal educational imagination. The media-orchestrated response of the avowedly apolitical, but staunchly...

... the logic of neoliberal markets and legitimate capital gain, hence the tight connections between cultural heritage, industry, and tourism. While the concept developed as early as the nineteenth century in postrevolutionary France, its expansive political, juridical, and symbolic use has matured only after...

... research possible. If we were to transpose the practical ethical questions about the methods and purposes of social research, imagining our research subjects as analogous to “Indigenous” people in settler-colonial states insofar as they are living in the region or coming from the region under study—despite...

... in relation to state practices of austerity and fiscal discipline. In particular I argue that the imaginative style of capitalism is future-­oriented speculation or the attempt to divine and ma- nipulate the visible and the invisible aspects of human and nonhuman productivity. I...

... to show that itself. Because we don’t see our imagined capitalism capitalist globalization is leading to the economic brought into existence, we call it capital’s failure. marginalization of huge numbers of people in We have to change this conventional yardstick to third world countries...

...- outcomes. Zones do not always work. They fail to lar ways, the zone opened up a new arena in which attract capital or fall into disrepair; they fail to cre- they could imagine and pursue new kinds of eco- ate employment or the kinds of opportunities for nomic and social subjectivity. In Malla...

...Laura Bear; Ritu Birla; Stine Simonsen Puri Speculation structures the unprecedented breadth and depth of contemporary global capitalism. We define it as an engagement with uncertainty that aims to materialize potential futures. Studies of economization and financialization have highlighted...

... in Looking at spatial iconographies as they of Brasília; Pakistan’s 1960s construction of Is- are imagined, constructed, and employed in lamabad, inspired quite broadly by a similar set Capital...

... intolerant state, this legacy is produced by a diversity of social groups that compete for different imaginations of Turkey's national identity. This essay argues that the Ottoman legacy, and the discourse of tolerance it represents, has two important geographic dimensions. First, the Ottoman legacy relies...

..., and humanity. As a social thinker of the present history of capitalism, Tadiar has an expansive imagination; therefore, her remit in this book is extensive. However, I will highlight four important perspectives that I found striking and illuminating for my own reflections on the question and conditions...

...Kelvin Ng Abstract In this article, Ng examines Tan Malaka's engagements with labor universalism and Muslim universality in his respective attempts to theorize the problematic of minority subjectivity vis-à-vis universal emancipation. Located at the periphery of global capitalism, Indonesia, though...

..., University of California , 1979 . Bhattacharyya Debjani . Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Campling Liam , and Colàs Alejandro . Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making...

... and their relationship to forms of contemporary capitalism and governmentality, as well as the emerging practices through which the poor “invade” the political and impact the frameworks targeting them. But the essay also suggests that, in following these threads, we need to push beyond Chatterjee's conceptual framework...

... critique of these mechanisms. Simone similarly builds on a long association with traders, members of religious brotherhoods, and fellow “urbanists” in cities across Africa and Asia. They both speak to what it means to live under conditions shaped by colonialism and imperialism, global capitalism...

... to standard polemical tracts and sustained treatises. In turn the insurgent thinker-activists around whom this section is framed are figures who challenged established traditions of thought and action—critical theory as such—by imagining political and ethical possibilities that were global in scope yet deeply...

... and the calculation of the patterns of behavior within vari- ous economic contexts. In other words, as the ex- 38. Appadurai, “Imagined Worlds.” omy of Dreams”; Miyazaki and Riles, “Failure 40. On India, see Birla, Stages of Capital...

... and in a later epoch other socio-political de- the one hand, and on the other, all manner of conjunc- nouements can be imagined to “resolve” a capitalist tural conditions associated with a particular period of crisis and restore the conditions for capital accumula- history not easily replicable in others...

... and in a later epoch other socio-political de- the one hand, and on the other, all manner of conjunc- nouements can be imagined to “resolve” a capitalist tural conditions associated with a particular period of crisis and restore the conditions for capital accumula- history not easily replicable in others...