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Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: The Logic of Promissory Finance -- Chapter Two: The Entrepreneurial Ethic and the Spirit of Financialism -- Chapter Three: The Ghost in the Financial Machine -- Chapter Four: The Sacred Market -- Chapter Five: Sociality, Uncertainty, and Ritual -- Chapter Six: The Charismatic Derivative -- Chapter Seven: The Wealth of Dividuals -- Chapter Eight: The Global Ambitions of Finance -- Chapter Nine: The End of the Contractual Promise -- Notes -- References -- Index

Arjun Appadurai ist einer der renommiertesten Anthropologen der Gegenwart. Mit Die Geographie des Zorns liegt nun eines seiner wichtigsten Werke erstmals auf deutsch vor. Appadurai beschäftigt sich mit der Dialektik der Globalisierung: Während die Jahre nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer einerseits eine Zeit der Demokratisierung und der weltweiten Angleichung von Instutitionen waren, erlebten wir beispiellose Exzesse der Gewalt: den Völkermord in Ruanda, die Bürgerkriege auf dem Balkan, die Anschläge des 11. September. Angesichts der drohenden kulturellen Homogenisierung erwacht ein "Narzißmus der Minderheiten"; wir leben - so Appadurai - in einer "Kultur des Kampfes".

From ethnocide to ideocide -- The civilization of clashes -- Globalization and violence -- Fear of small numbers -- Our terrorists, ourselves -- Grassroots globalization in the era of ideocide

This collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites -- local, regional, diasporic -- are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of violence. Seeking an alternative to the dead-end debate between those who see globalization as a phenomenon wholly without precedent and those who see it simply as modernization, imperialism, or global capitalism with a new face, the contributors seek to illuminate how space and time are transforming each other in special ways in the present era. They examine how this complex transformation involves changes in the situation of the nation, the state, and the city. While exploring distinct regions -- China, Africa, South America, Europe -- and representing different disciplines and genres -- anthropology, literature, political science, sociology, music, cinema, photography -- the contributors are concerned with both the political economy of location and the locations in which political economies are produced and transformed.