"…<i>Tracking Capital</i> offers a vital complement to world literary study, particularly at a moment of planetary and academic crisis." — <i>ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment</i><br /><br />"An impressive and important contribution to ongoing, heated debates about 'World Literature.' In bringing together and freshly illustrating world-systems, world-ecology, and world-culture approaches, the volume serves as a handy introduction to these methods, while offering the experienced reader much to reckon with." — Crystal Bartolovich, coauthor (with Jane Hillman and Jean E. Howard) of <i>Marx and Freud, Great Shakespeareans: Volume X</i>

Tracking Capital introduces new ways to understand the entanglement of cultural forms and practices in economic, social, and ecological crises and struggles. Building on the fundamental insights of world-systems analysis, the book offers readers a series of rubrics, keywords, and concepts—such as zemiperiphery, registration, and commodity chains—to enable more integrated, transdisciplinary methods of literary and cultural study. Throughout, Sharae Deckard, Michael Niblett, and Stephen Shapiro foreground the role of culture in both consolidating and contesting the classism, racism, sexism, and ecocide constitutive of the modern world-system. In the context of capitalism's ongoing bloody war against the poor, the powerless, and the planet, Tracking Capital provides tools with which to diagnose the morbid symptoms of the present, as well as to plot possible steps on the road to a better future.
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Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSharae Deckard, Michael Niblett, and Stephen Shapiro1. What Is World-Systems for Cultural Studies?Stephen Shapiro2. Registering Capitalist Nature: Conjectures on World-Ecological LiteratureSharae Deckard3. Tracking Capital: Commodity Chains, Commodity Frontiers, World-CultureMichael NiblettReferencesIndex
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"…Tracking Capital offers a vital complement to world literary study, particularly at a moment of planetary and academic crisis." — ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment"An impressive and important contribution to ongoing, heated debates about 'World Literature.' In bringing together and freshly illustrating world-systems, world-ecology, and world-culture approaches, the volume serves as a handy introduction to these methods, while offering the experienced reader much to reckon with." — Crystal Bartolovich, coauthor (with Jane Hillman and Jean E. Howard) of Marx and Freud, Great Shakespeareans: Volume X
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781438496832
Publisert
2024-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
190

Om bidragsyterne

Sharae Deckard is Associate Professor of World Literature at University College Dublin. She is the coeditor (with Stephen Shapiro) of World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent. Michael Niblett is Associate Professor in Modern World Literature at the University of Warwick. He is the coeditor (with Chris Campbell and Kerstin Oloff) of Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System. Stephen Shapiro is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the coauthor (with Philip Barnard) of Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture.