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Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism

Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism

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Business GeneralGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 9004201572
ISBN13: 9789004201576
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 12 2011
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Winner of the 2012 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx's persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, Monsters of the Market offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of a global market-system. The book thus makes original contributions to political economy, cultural theory, commodification-studies and 'body-theory'.

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