Migrant futures : decolonizing speculation in financial times /

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"In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for wealthy elites, the wide range of specula...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bahng, Aimee, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Speculative fiction.
Finance in literature.
Future, The, in literature.
Speculation.
Roman d'hypothèse.
Futur dans la littérature.
Spéculation.
speculating.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On speculation: fiction, finance, and futurity
  • Imperial rubber: the speculative arcs of Karen Tei Yamashita's rainforest futures
  • Homeland futurity: speculations at the border
  • Speculation and the speculum: necropolitical surrogations of futurity
  • The cruel optimism of the Asian century
  • Salt fish futures: the irradiated transpacific and the financialization of the human genome project
  • Speculation as discourse, speculation as exuberance.

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