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Performing Capital

Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance

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  1. Rob Aitken
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Performing Capital

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Performing Capital: An Introduction

      • Rob Aitken
      Pages 3-27

    3. Culture, Government, Capital

      • Rob Aitken
      Pages 29-51

  3. Popular Finance and the National Body

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Geopolitics, Nation, and Beyond: Performances of Security

      • Rob Aitken
      Pages 55-82

    3. “A Vital Force”: Popular Finance and the National Economy

      • Rob Aitken
      Pages 83-110

  5. Conclusion: Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance

    1. Conclusion: Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance

      • Rob Aitken
      Pages 195-212

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 213-247
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About this book

This books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself, which needs to be made and performed in the spaces where is does not already exist. 'Culture' is used to intervene into everyday spaces to develop capital there.

Reviews

"Rob Aitken's work will leave readers in little doubt that 'finance capital' is not some coherent and extra-ordinary force that occupies a unique place outside of 'real' political-economic life, but is precariously assembled and visualised through the mundane performances of saving and self-government. Conceptually incisive and empirically rich, Performing Capital is essential reading for political economists and for all who are concerned with financial markets and the power of Wall Street"

- Paul Langley, author of World Financial Orders and The Everyday Life of Global Finance"This is a wonderful account of the constitution of global finance in diverse spaces of everyday life. It is perhaps the first volume to take seriously the importance of visual culture to the history of finance. This book is an important addition to the growing literature on the interdisciplinary study of financial practice - and a good read!"

- Dr Marieke de Goede, Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam

About the author

ROB AITKEN is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests lie at the intersection of International Political Economy and Cultural Studies. His research focuses on the globalization of finance, the culture of everyday economic spaces and the relationship between governmentality and the making of economic space.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Performing Capital

  • Book Subtitle: Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance

  • Authors: Rob Aitken

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607088

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Rob Aitken 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7733-5Published: 17 October 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53740-2Published: 17 October 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60708-8Published: 01 October 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International Relations, International Political Economy, Economic Policy

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