Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood

Edited by Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab

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March, 2006
Cloth, 186 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13784-3
$50.00 / £34.50

"With a keen sensitivity to changing practices of property under globalizing neoliberal capitalism, this volume offers a penetrating critique of the deep ideology of the autonomous individual that has long permeated the operation of Euro-American institutions." — George E. Marcus, Rice University, author of Ethnography through Thick and Thin

"A brilliant and attractive collection, offering stunning syntheses on some of today's hottest interdisciplinary topics. " — Bruce Robbins , professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress

Related Subjects

• Cultural Studies
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Critical Theory Institute Book

About the Author

Bill Maurer is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of three books, including Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason.Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and faculty associate in anthropology. She is the author of four books, including Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction and The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language.

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