Week
Biographic Data
| ID | 41449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Week |
| FAMILY NAME | Week |
| SIGNATURE | WEEK |
| AFFILIATIONS | Thomas Jefferson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3883-2174 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The menagerie of Berggasse 19: An animal studies rereading of Freud’s classic case studies
This article explores Freud’s original engagement with animal symbols, characters, and stories in his case studies “Little Hans,” “The Rat Man,” and “The Wolf Man.” Employing insights from animal studies, the article examines Freud’s views on the human-animal continuum as well as the phenomena of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, via which human characteristics are affixed to animals and animal characteristics to humans. Also examined is the symb…
From Canonical Law to Offshore Finance: Confessing to Priests and Bankers in Luxembourg
In this article, I address two recurring tendencies that I heard during a recent period of research on banking secrecy in Luxembourg. First, my banker interviewees frequently mentioned personal transgressions for why many of their clients hide assets “offshore.” The wrongdoings my interlocutors cited included not only clients’ tax evasion, bankruptcy, and avoidance of liability – but also divorce, adultery, and the existence of out-of-wedlock chi…
Introduction: Towards an Economic Anthropology of Catholicism, in the Age of Pope Francis
Introduction to Towards an Economic Anthropology of Catholicism, in the Age of Pope Francis
Channeling the capital of others: How Luxembourg came to be asset managers' "plumber" of choice
This article analyzes the development and growth of the administrative practices and structures necessary for leading asset management companies and other firms to create and sell their "product" of choice: investment funds. To investigate this problematic, I turn to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which currently serves as the domicile for over $5 trillion in fund assets. Since the 1980s, Luxembourg's "offshore" financial center has become a lead…
Financing white rule: How Luxembourg became a banker for the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa
In this article, I offer a historical analysis of how bankers in Luxembourg came to be important service providers to borrowers in the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa. I demonstrate how a series of unique political and cultural factors linking Luxembourg and these two (neo)colonial regimes account for the financial activities that developed between the three jurisdictions. As such, I show that officials in the Belgian Congo and Apartheid…
Langue de bois, or, discourse in defense of an offshore financial center
This article brings together trends in Critical Discourse Analysis dating from the 1980s – which examine how language use and ideologies (re)produce social inequality – with current research in the social sciences on neoliberalism and other emerging politico-economic formations. The article addresses such a problematic with an empirical case: the language strategies, dubbed langue de bois, that people affiliated with Luxembourg’s offshore financi…
Scaling-Up
A Freeport Comes to Luxembourg, or, Why Those Wishing to Hide Assets Purchase Fine Art
This article addresses how global art markets are becoming an outlet of choice for those wishing to hide assets. Recent efforts by the OECD and the U.S. Treasury have made it more difficult for people to avoid taxes by taking money “offshore”. These efforts, however, do not cover physical assets such as fine art. Citing data collected in Luxembourg—a jurisdiction angling to become a worldwide leader in “art finance”—I discuss the characteristics …
Offshore ontologies: Global capital as substance, simulation, and the supernatural
Symbolism and Resilience in the Aftermath of a Destructive Volcanic Eruption
Longing for "Normal" Post-Fordism: Cape Verdean Labor-Power on a Lisbon Periphery in Crisis
Starting in the late 1970s, Cape Verdean labor-power became indispensable in a number of sectors of the Portuguese economy, no longer merely filling gaps but serving as a vital part of the workforce in key industries such as civil construction and cleaning services. Assuming a central role in the productive process, these largely "low-skilled" immigrants came to form a reserve army of labor in the fragmented service-sector economy of the Lisbon M…
Patricia de Santana Pinho, Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
In Mama Africa, Brazilian social scientist Patricia de Santana Pinho details the influence that “Africa” has on conceptions of blackness in Bahia, the northeastern Brazilian state with the country’s largest Afro-descendent population and a black culture known for its vibrancy. The receptiveness of Afro-Bahians to black cultural influences from abroad, coupled with the desire of outsiders to project African “tradition” and “purity” onto the state…
Kesha Fikes, Managing African Portugal
Managing African Portugal by US anthropologist Kesha Fikes is an ethnographic account of how Portugal’s mid-1990s economic and social integration into the European Union (EU) fundamentally changed everyday encounters between Portuguese citizens and African immigrants. Fikes’ book is a thoughtful assessment of how colonial legacies impact contemporary social relations in an EU context and is a poignant critique of how government-sponsored “multic…
Longing for "Normal" Post-Fordism: Cape Verdean Labor-Power on a Lisbon Periphery in Crisis
Starting in the late 1970s, Cape Verdean labor-power became indispensable in a number of sectors of the Portuguese economy, no longer merely filling gaps but serving as a vital part of the workforce in key industries such as civil construction and cleaning services. Assuming a central role in the productive process, these largely "low-skilled" immigrants came to form a reserve army of labor in the fragmented service-sector economy of the Lisbon M…
Channeling the capital of others: How Luxembourg came to be asset managers' "plumber" of choice
This article analyzes the development and growth of the administrative practices and structures necessary for leading asset management companies and other firms to create and sell their "product" of choice: investment funds. To investigate this problematic, I turn to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which currently serves as the domicile for over $5 trillion in fund assets. Since the 1980s, Luxembourg's "offshore" financial center has become a lead…
Langue de bois, or, discourse in defense of an offshore financial center
This article brings together trends in Critical Discourse Analysis dating from the 1980s – which examine how language use and ideologies (re)produce social inequality – with current research in the social sciences on neoliberalism and other emerging politico-economic formations. The article addresses such a problematic with an empirical case: the language strategies, dubbed langue de bois, that people affiliated with Luxembourg’s offshore financi…
From Canonical Law to Offshore Finance: Confessing to Priests and Bankers in Luxembourg
In this article, I address two recurring tendencies that I heard during a recent period of research on banking secrecy in Luxembourg. First, my banker interviewees frequently mentioned personal transgressions for why many of their clients hide assets “offshore.” The wrongdoings my interlocutors cited included not only clients’ tax evasion, bankruptcy, and avoidance of liability – but also divorce, adultery, and the existence of out-of-wedlock chi…
Kesha Fikes, Managing African Portugal
Managing African Portugal by US anthropologist Kesha Fikes is an ethnographic account of how Portugal’s mid-1990s economic and social integration into the European Union (EU) fundamentally changed everyday encounters between Portuguese citizens and African immigrants. Fikes’ book is a thoughtful assessment of how colonial legacies impact contemporary social relations in an EU context and is a poignant critique of how government-sponsored “multic…
Kesha Fikes, Managing African Portugal
Managing African Portugal by US anthropologist Kesha Fikes is an ethnographic account of how Portugal’s mid-1990s economic and social integration into the European Union (EU) fundamentally changed everyday encounters between Portuguese citizens and African immigrants. Fikes’ book is a thoughtful assessment of how colonial legacies impact contemporary social relations in an EU context and is a poignant critique of how government-sponsored “multic…
Patricia de Santana Pinho, Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
In Mama Africa, Brazilian social scientist Patricia de Santana Pinho details the influence that “Africa” has on conceptions of blackness in Bahia, the northeastern Brazilian state with the country’s largest Afro-descendent population and a black culture known for its vibrancy. The receptiveness of Afro-Bahians to black cultural influences from abroad, coupled with the desire of outsiders to project African “tradition” and “purity” onto the state…
Longing for "Normal" Post-Fordism: Cape Verdean Labor-Power on a Lisbon Periphery in Crisis
Starting in the late 1970s, Cape Verdean labor-power became indispensable in a number of sectors of the Portuguese economy, no longer merely filling gaps but serving as a vital part of the workforce in key industries such as civil construction and cleaning services. Assuming a central role in the productive process, these largely "low-skilled" immigrants came to form a reserve army of labor in the fragmented service-sector economy of the Lisbon M…
Symbolism and Resilience in the Aftermath of a Destructive Volcanic Eruption
A Freeport Comes to Luxembourg, or, Why Those Wishing to Hide Assets Purchase Fine Art
This article addresses how global art markets are becoming an outlet of choice for those wishing to hide assets. Recent efforts by the OECD and the U.S. Treasury have made it more difficult for people to avoid taxes by taking money “offshore”. These efforts, however, do not cover physical assets such as fine art. Citing data collected in Luxembourg—a jurisdiction angling to become a worldwide leader in “art finance”—I discuss the characteristics …
Offshore ontologies: Global capital as substance, simulation, and the supernatural
Langue de bois, or, discourse in defense of an offshore financial center
This article brings together trends in Critical Discourse Analysis dating from the 1980s – which examine how language use and ideologies (re)produce social inequality – with current research in the social sciences on neoliberalism and other emerging politico-economic formations. The article addresses such a problematic with an empirical case: the language strategies, dubbed langue de bois, that people affiliated with Luxembourg’s offshore financi…
Scaling-Up
From Canonical Law to Offshore Finance: Confessing to Priests and Bankers in Luxembourg
In this article, I address two recurring tendencies that I heard during a recent period of research on banking secrecy in Luxembourg. First, my banker interviewees frequently mentioned personal transgressions for why many of their clients hide assets “offshore.” The wrongdoings my interlocutors cited included not only clients’ tax evasion, bankruptcy, and avoidance of liability – but also divorce, adultery, and the existence of out-of-wedlock chi…
Introduction: Towards an Economic Anthropology of Catholicism, in the Age of Pope Francis
Introduction to Towards an Economic Anthropology of Catholicism, in the Age of Pope Francis
Channeling the capital of others: How Luxembourg came to be asset managers' "plumber" of choice
This article analyzes the development and growth of the administrative practices and structures necessary for leading asset management companies and other firms to create and sell their "product" of choice: investment funds. To investigate this problematic, I turn to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which currently serves as the domicile for over $5 trillion in fund assets. Since the 1980s, Luxembourg's "offshore" financial center has become a lead…
Financing white rule: How Luxembourg became a banker for the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa
In this article, I offer a historical analysis of how bankers in Luxembourg came to be important service providers to borrowers in the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa. I demonstrate how a series of unique political and cultural factors linking Luxembourg and these two (neo)colonial regimes account for the financial activities that developed between the three jurisdictions. As such, I show that officials in the Belgian Congo and Apartheid…
The menagerie of Berggasse 19: An animal studies rereading of Freud’s classic case studies
This article explores Freud’s original engagement with animal symbols, characters, and stories in his case studies “Little Hans,” “The Rat Man,” and “The Wolf Man.” Employing insights from animal studies, the article examines Freud’s views on the human-animal continuum as well as the phenomena of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, via which human characteristics are affixed to animals and animal characteristics to humans. Also examined is the symb…
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