Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Overture: Thinking the Global 1

1 Tracking Global Flows 3
Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo

2 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 47
Arjun Appadurai

3 The Global Situation 66
Anna Tsing

Part I Itinerant Capital 99

Introduction 99

4 Notes on Mayan Youth and Rural Industrialization in Guatemala 101
Linda Green

5 Thai Love Thai: Financing Emotion in Post-crash Thailand 121
Alan Klima

6 Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks 137
Karen Ho

Part II Mobile Subjects 165

Introduction 165

7 Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational Chinese 167
Aihwa Ong

8 Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity 184
Katherine Pratt Ewing

9 Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France 212
Didier Fassin

Part III Roving Commodities 235

Introduction 235

10 Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald’s and Consumerism in Moscow 237
Melissa L. Caldwell

11 Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism 254
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant

12 Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA 277
Andrew Lakoff

Part IV Traveling Media 301

Introduction 301

13 Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World 303
Tom Boellstorff

14 Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood, and Global Media 334
Brian Larkin

15 The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements 352
Jeffrey S. Juris

Part V Nomadic Ideologies 371

Introduction 371

16 The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface 373
Sally Engle Merry and Rachel E. Stern

17 Disorderly Development: Globalization and the Idea of ‘‘Culture’’ in the Kalahari 403
Reneè Sylvain

18 Politico-moral Transactions in Indian AIDS Service: Confidentiality, Rights, and New Modalities of Governance 433
Kavita Misra

Index 468