J Roitman
Biographic Data
| ID | 48350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Roitman |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Roitman |
| SIGNATURE | ROITMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1890-7535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 742 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Epistemic preparedness
Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically or cognitively prepared for the next disease outbreak? Taking stock of lessons for data practices and statistical modelling in the wake of COVID-19, we propose a reconceptualising of preparedness in global health, focusing on ecological and sociolog…
The role of digital financial infrastructure for the Nieo in sub-Saharan Africa
This article analyses how emerging digital financial infrastructures potentially contribute to the principles of the New International Economic Order (NIEO). Specifically, it considers how digital financial technologies (fintech) drive economic transformation, potentially empowering Sub-Saharan nation-states to better manage the structural challenges of their economic environments. Our view is that, while financiial technologies are oft-maligned …
Multiple currency regimes, then and now
Anthropology and Tax: Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations
From the perspective of individual taxpayers to international tax norm negotiators, the anthropologists in this collection explore how taxes shape our world: our social relationships and value regimes, how we exclude and include, the categories we think with, and the way we share with each other. A first of its kind, it presents an anthropological discussion about tax rooted in ethnographic work. It asks fundamental questions such as: what is tax…
Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide
Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However, different assumptions are made about the effects of digital platforms depending on geographical location. While digital platforms are approached as inherent to processes of financialization globally, they are…
Afterword
In their recent book, Inquiry after Modernism, Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis argue that modernist forms of anthropological knowledge and critique persist today despite changes in their conditions of production. Their lament for the promise of the experimental moment finds redress in newfound attention to the conditions of production of anthropological knowledge. The object of anthropological inquiry is not just a problematic situation, or…
The ends of perpetual crisis
We now live in perpetual crisis: ‘an age of crisis’, ‘times of crisis’, ‘chronic crisis’ and so on. These expressions seem to merely describe a state of affairs, but they are foundational claims. The concept of crisis qualifies a world: it determines what gets to count as an event and what gets inscribed as history in the ongoing stream of competing phenomena. Crisis is a naturalising category that subsumes specificity. It has colonised the life-…
Why Urgency, Now
The essays collected in this special issue of Social Anthropology ask questions about thxe status of claims to urgency. Such claims are a way of indexing a state of affairs; they qualify the ongoing stream of phenomena that we observe and take part in. They are, therefore, and as noted by the various contributions to this special issue, not self-evident. Such claims constitute the significance of events. The question for an anthropology of claims…
Adjacency and secession
What matters is not what we know but how we learn. This principle of inquiry shapes Paul Rabinow’s life work. It is also an ethics, an aspiration. This principle sustains the practice of problematization, or the delineation of zones of inquiry in terms of the conceptual interconnection of problems. In contrast to anthropological practice that is defined by the perpetual critique of existing relations, Rabinow assumes a mode of adjacency so as to …
Africa Rising ». Question de classe ou de finance
La notion d'« Africa Rising », qui renvoie à la formation d'une nouvelle classe moyenne et annonce une nouvelle ère pour le continent, suscite de nombreux débats. Les économistes du développement se sont attelés à mesurer l'ampleur de la classe moyenne, pendant que les anthropologues et les sociologues ont critiqué cette démarche pour son économicisme. Cela a enfermé le débat dans une opposition entre le quantitatif et le qualitatif. Il manque dè…
Crisis in history or crisis historiography
History in Financial Times sheds light on the historiography of contemporary finance. But there is a tension in the book that is inescapable: between the production of crisis historiography, on the one hand, and the practice of the concept of crisis, on the other. There is, in other words, a barely articulated distinction between crisis as a "metahistorical force" and crisis as a "peculiar, naturalist" category
Anti-Crisis: Thinking with and against crisis excerpt from interview with Janet Roitman
Original interview published as 'Anti-Crisis: Penser avec et contre la crise?' Critique internationale 85, 2019: 107-121: https://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-internationale-2019-4-page-107.htm On
Anti-Crisis: Penser avec et contre les crises
Sur quels fondements épistémiques l’état de « crise » peut-il être déclaré ? Quel rapport un tel diagnostic entretient-il avec nos représentations de l’histoire, du fonctionnement routinier des organisations et des marchés ? Ces questions sont au coeur des recherches de Janet Roitman, professeure d’anthropologie à la\nNew School for Social Research de New York City, après avoir été chercheuse au CNRS (Institut Marcel Mauss/CNRS-EHESS). Ses travau…
L'Afrique, autrement: Dépasser la crise
Bien que la crise soit clairement définie par une conjoncture historique bien précise (guerre, récession, famine) - ou par un moment de bifurcation dans l'histoire - elle est devenue depuis trois décennies déjà la condition ontologique du continent africain, son état permanent. Peut-on parler d'un état de crise sur le long terme ? Comment penser l'Afrique autrement que sous le signe de la crise ? C'est la question centrale de cet article. Au lieu…
Two / Africa Otherwise
Anti-Crisis
Guest Editor's Letter
Over the past years, France has been rocked not only by violent demonstrations in the banlieues (city outskirts) but also by raging debates regarding the place of "postcolonial studies" in the French archive and in current scholarship. The dispute over postcolonial studies in this European venue is symptomatic of disagreement about the status of French colonial history and the category of race in the construction of contemporary national narrativ…
The Garrison‐Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin
This chapter contains section titled: Unregulated Commerce and Road Banditry: A Day's Work The Intelligibility of Seizure and Tax Practices of Government on the Margins and in the Norm Notes
The Right to Tax: Economic Citizenship in the Chad Basin
Roitman's paper explores the concept of ‘economic citizenship’ through an examination of practices in the cross-border territories of the Chad Basin. In doing so, Roitman demonstrates the simultaneous existence of regulated and unlicensed economic activities. Her exploration of the discourse surrounding these economic practices, and the civil disobedience of the Villes Mortes campaign, which brought regulated and unregulated traders together in a…
The Efficacy of the Economy
This article engages with Jane Guyer's assessment (in Marginal Gains, 2004) of contemporary forms of capitalism from outside the bounds of two opposing logics: the universalization of capitalist arrangements versus the specificity of local forms of economic arrangement. Guyer's rejection of a priori definitions of economic categories leads to fertile analysis of measures and mediations as poly-semic modes of valuation. The author asks: what is th…
La politique de la valeur: Une introduction
Il nous semble important de faire connaître au public français le texte signé par Igor Kopytoff dont nous publions la traduction ci-dessous. Il est tiré d'un volume collectif publié en 1986 sous la direction de Arjun Appadurai, intitulé The social life of things. Commodities in cultural perspective (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). Il est publié ici en raison de son lien avec le dossier qui précède et permet aussi de comprendre, entre bien…
Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa
Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analysis of key ideas of political economy to examine the contentious nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. She argues that citizens…
Les recompositions du bassin du lac Tchad
Cet article se penche sur la question de la place réservée aux morts dans les milieux pentecôtistes du Sud-Bénin. Il cherche à préciser les enjeux et les implications de ce qui s’apparente fortement à une évacuation des défunts. En explorant ainsi la logique de la réarticulation des filiations qui suit la conversion, on touche inévitablement aux questions de la construction de la personne et de son inscription dans une lignée
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by Florence Bernault, translated by Janet Roitman. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 287. $67.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. The collection under review, English translation of Florence Bernault's Enfermement, prison et chatiments en Afrique du 19e siecle a nos jours, is important addition to a literature applying Foucaultian problematics to African history. The collection describes more than…
La garnison-entrepôt: Une manière de gouverner dans le bassin du lac Tchad
La garnison-entrepôt est un concept régulateur qui se situe au cœur de la problématisation du pouvoir dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Ce concept se fonde sur un lien militaro-commercial qui circonscrit les activités économiques non régulées, dominantes aux abords des frontières. Ces activités, quoique se développant aux marges, ne sont pas marginales : elles permettent la mobilité sociale et la redistribution économique et fournissent une rente aux …
Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa
Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analysis of key ideas of political economy to examine the contentious nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. She argues that citizens…
Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis
Research Article| May 01 1995 Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis Achille Mbembe; Achille Mbembe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Janet Roitman Janet Roitman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 323-352. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-2-323 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Achille Mbembe, Janet Ro…
Unsanctioned Wealth; or, The Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon
Janet Roitman is chargée de recherche at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique. Her recent publications include"New Sovereigns? Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin," inIntervention and Transnationalism in Africa, edited by Thomas Callahgy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham (2001), and "The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin," inGlobal Anthropology: Technology, Governmentality, Ethics, edited by Aihwa Ong and …
The Politics of Informal Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is evidence of a new trend in recent scholarship on African political economy: an effort to tip the scale towards the latter end of the so-called state-society balance. This nascent movement portends to serve as a corrective to past academic work devoted to defining and delineating the form and nature of the African state. The statist literature has traditionally formed two camps, one based on liberal, neo-classical theory, and the other in…
The Right to Tax: Economic Citizenship in the Chad Basin
Roitman's paper explores the concept of ‘economic citizenship’ through an examination of practices in the cross-border territories of the Chad Basin. In doing so, Roitman demonstrates the simultaneous existence of regulated and unlicensed economic activities. Her exploration of the discourse surrounding these economic practices, and the civil disobedience of the Villes Mortes campaign, which brought regulated and unregulated traders together in a…
The Garrison-Entrepôt
This text examines the meanings and material effects of the garrison-entrepot in the Lake Chad Basin. As an historical institution, the garrison-entrepot is a site where practices and significations which are both military and commercial are concretized. It takes part in the history of conquest and violent modes of violent accumulation (slaving, razzia, raiding) known to the region. Today, the normalization of violence associated with certain man…
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by Florence Bernault, translated by Janet Roitman. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 287. $67.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. The collection under review, English translation of Florence Bernault's Enfermement, prison et chatiments en Afrique du 19e siecle a nos jours, is important addition to a literature applying Foucaultian problematics to African history. The collection describes more than…
Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide
Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However, different assumptions are made about the effects of digital platforms depending on geographical location. While digital platforms are approached as inherent to processes of financialization globally, they are…
La garnison-entrepôt: Une manière de gouverner dans le bassin du lac Tchad
La garnison-entrepôt est un concept régulateur qui se situe au cœur de la problématisation du pouvoir dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Ce concept se fonde sur un lien militaro-commercial qui circonscrit les activités économiques non régulées, dominantes aux abords des frontières. Ces activités, quoique se développant aux marges, ne sont pas marginales : elles permettent la mobilité sociale et la redistribution économique et fournissent une rente aux …
The ends of perpetual crisis
We now live in perpetual crisis: ‘an age of crisis’, ‘times of crisis’, ‘chronic crisis’ and so on. These expressions seem to merely describe a state of affairs, but they are foundational claims. The concept of crisis qualifies a world: it determines what gets to count as an event and what gets inscribed as history in the ongoing stream of competing phenomena. Crisis is a naturalising category that subsumes specificity. It has colonised the life-…
Guinée-Équatoriale: Être « Off-Shore » Pour Rester « National
Avec la découverte du pétrole, la Guinée-Équatoriale a pu négocier des partenariats avec des firmes internationales. Cet article examine les efforts du régime guinéen pour se repositionner sur la scène internationale. Ce pays est-il une entité « off-shore » ou un entrepôt continental ? Appartient-il aux mondes hispanophone ou francophone, à la zone franc ou aux marchés dollarisés ? Les réponses à ces questions dépendent de la redéfinition ce qui …
Anti-Crisis: Thinking with and against crisis excerpt from interview with Janet Roitman
Original interview published as 'Anti-Crisis: Penser avec et contre la crise?' Critique internationale 85, 2019: 107-121: https://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-internationale-2019-4-page-107.htm On
Guest Editor's Letter
Over the past years, France has been rocked not only by violent demonstrations in the banlieues (city outskirts) but also by raging debates regarding the place of "postcolonial studies" in the French archive and in current scholarship. The dispute over postcolonial studies in this European venue is symptomatic of disagreement about the status of French colonial history and the category of race in the construction of contemporary national narrativ…
The Efficacy of the Economy
This article engages with Jane Guyer's assessment (in Marginal Gains, 2004) of contemporary forms of capitalism from outside the bounds of two opposing logics: the universalization of capitalist arrangements versus the specificity of local forms of economic arrangement. Guyer's rejection of a priori definitions of economic categories leads to fertile analysis of measures and mediations as poly-semic modes of valuation. The author asks: what is th…
Economie morale, subjectivité et politique
Roitman Janet, Bouyssou Rachel. Economie morale, subjectivité et politique. In: Critique internationale, vol. 6. 2000. Rationalités de la violence extrême, sous la direction de Jacques Sémelin. pp. 48-56
Africa Rising ». Question de classe ou de finance
La notion d'« Africa Rising », qui renvoie à la formation d'une nouvelle classe moyenne et annonce une nouvelle ère pour le continent, suscite de nombreux débats. Les économistes du développement se sont attelés à mesurer l'ampleur de la classe moyenne, pendant que les anthropologues et les sociologues ont critiqué cette démarche pour son économicisme. Cela a enfermé le débat dans une opposition entre le quantitatif et le qualitatif. Il manque dè…
Queries on Cultural Capitalism
Du capitalisme culturel. - Dans cet article les trois ouvrages analysés offrent, chacun à sa manière, une critique aiguë du capitalisme en termes de catégorie universelle. À travers des études de cas, les auteurs remettent en question les conceptions qui font de l'histoire du capitalisme à la fois une entreprise globalisante du monde et un processus d'intégration inéluctable, dans une modernité englobante, des différentes communautés traditionnel…
Crisis in history or crisis historiography
History in Financial Times sheds light on the historiography of contemporary finance. But there is a tension in the book that is inescapable: between the production of crisis historiography, on the one hand, and the practice of the concept of crisis, on the other. There is, in other words, a barely articulated distinction between crisis as a "metahistorical force" and crisis as a "peculiar, naturalist" category
Les recompositions du bassin du lac Tchad
Cet article se penche sur la question de la place réservée aux morts dans les milieux pentecôtistes du Sud-Bénin. Il cherche à préciser les enjeux et les implications de ce qui s’apparente fortement à une évacuation des défunts. En explorant ainsi la logique de la réarticulation des filiations qui suit la conversion, on touche inévitablement aux questions de la construction de la personne et de son inscription dans une lignée
Economie morale, subjectivité et politique
The Politics of Informal Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is evidence of a new trend in recent scholarship on African political economy: an effort to tip the scale towards the latter end of the so-called state-society balance. This nascent movement portends to serve as a corrective to past academic work devoted to defining and delineating the form and nature of the African state. The statist literature has traditionally formed two camps, one based on liberal, neo-classical theory, and the other in…
Award Recipients
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Lost Innocence: The Production of Truth and Desire in Northern Cameroon
A partir de deux genres de publications (scientifique et litteraire) de N. Barley, consacrees aux Dowayo du Nord du Cameroun, l'A. analyse les problemes d'interpretation et de causalite, les relations entre le reel / rationnel et l'imaginaire / irrationnel, l'alterite et l'identification
Queries on Cultural Capitalism
Du capitalisme culturel. - Dans cet article les trois ouvrages analysés offrent, chacun à sa manière, une critique aiguë du capitalisme en termes de catégorie universelle. À travers des études de cas, les auteurs remettent en question les conceptions qui font de l'histoire du capitalisme à la fois une entreprise globalisante du monde et un processus d'intégration inéluctable, dans une modernité englobante, des différentes communautés traditionnel…
Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis
Research Article| May 01 1995 Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis Achille Mbembe; Achille Mbembe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Janet Roitman Janet Roitman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 323-352. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-2-323 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Achille Mbembe, Janet Ro…
The Garrison-Entrepôt
This text examines the meanings and material effects of the garrison-entrepot in the Lake Chad Basin. As an historical institution, the garrison-entrepot is a site where practices and significations which are both military and commercial are concretized. It takes part in the history of conquest and violent modes of violent accumulation (slaving, razzia, raiding) known to the region. Today, the normalization of violence associated with certain man…
The Modernity of Witchcraft: Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Originally Published in French as Sorcellerie et Politique en Afrique - La Viande des autres
Economie morale, subjectivité et politique
Roitman Janet, Bouyssou Rachel. Economie morale, subjectivité et politique. In: Critique internationale, vol. 6. 2000. Rationalités de la violence extrême, sous la direction de Jacques Sémelin. pp. 48-56
Economie morale, subjectivité et politique
Guinée-Équatoriale: Être « Off-Shore » Pour Rester « National
Avec la découverte du pétrole, la Guinée-Équatoriale a pu négocier des partenariats avec des firmes internationales. Cet article examine les efforts du régime guinéen pour se repositionner sur la scène internationale. Ce pays est-il une entité « off-shore » ou un entrepôt continental ? Appartient-il aux mondes hispanophone ou francophone, à la zone franc ou aux marchés dollarisés ? Les réponses à ces questions dépendent de la redéfinition ce qui …
La garnison-entrepôt: Une manière de gouverner dans le bassin du lac Tchad
La garnison-entrepôt est un concept régulateur qui se situe au cœur de la problématisation du pouvoir dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Ce concept se fonde sur un lien militaro-commercial qui circonscrit les activités économiques non régulées, dominantes aux abords des frontières. Ces activités, quoique se développant aux marges, ne sont pas marginales : elles permettent la mobilité sociale et la redistribution économique et fournissent une rente aux …
Unsanctioned Wealth; or, The Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon
Janet Roitman is chargée de recherche at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique. Her recent publications include"New Sovereigns? Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin," inIntervention and Transnationalism in Africa, edited by Thomas Callahgy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham (2001), and "The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin," inGlobal Anthropology: Technology, Governmentality, Ethics, edited by Aihwa Ong and …
Les recompositions du bassin du lac Tchad
Cet article se penche sur la question de la place réservée aux morts dans les milieux pentecôtistes du Sud-Bénin. Il cherche à préciser les enjeux et les implications de ce qui s’apparente fortement à une évacuation des défunts. En explorant ainsi la logique de la réarticulation des filiations qui suit la conversion, on touche inévitablement aux questions de la construction de la personne et de son inscription dans une lignée
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by Florence Bernault, translated by Janet Roitman. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 287. $67.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. The collection under review, English translation of Florence Bernault's Enfermement, prison et chatiments en Afrique du 19e siecle a nos jours, is important addition to a literature applying Foucaultian problematics to African history. The collection describes more than…
Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa
Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analysis of key ideas of political economy to examine the contentious nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. She argues that citizens…
La politique de la valeur: Une introduction
Il nous semble important de faire connaître au public français le texte signé par Igor Kopytoff dont nous publions la traduction ci-dessous. Il est tiré d'un volume collectif publié en 1986 sous la direction de Arjun Appadurai, intitulé The social life of things. Commodities in cultural perspective (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). Il est publié ici en raison de son lien avec le dossier qui précède et permet aussi de comprendre, entre bien…
The Garrison‐Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin
This chapter contains section titled: Unregulated Commerce and Road Banditry: A Day's Work The Intelligibility of Seizure and Tax Practices of Government on the Margins and in the Norm Notes
The Right to Tax: Economic Citizenship in the Chad Basin
Roitman's paper explores the concept of ‘economic citizenship’ through an examination of practices in the cross-border territories of the Chad Basin. In doing so, Roitman demonstrates the simultaneous existence of regulated and unlicensed economic activities. Her exploration of the discourse surrounding these economic practices, and the civil disobedience of the Villes Mortes campaign, which brought regulated and unregulated traders together in a…
The Efficacy of the Economy
This article engages with Jane Guyer's assessment (in Marginal Gains, 2004) of contemporary forms of capitalism from outside the bounds of two opposing logics: the universalization of capitalist arrangements versus the specificity of local forms of economic arrangement. Guyer's rejection of a priori definitions of economic categories leads to fertile analysis of measures and mediations as poly-semic modes of valuation. The author asks: what is th…
Guest Editor's Letter
Over the past years, France has been rocked not only by violent demonstrations in the banlieues (city outskirts) but also by raging debates regarding the place of "postcolonial studies" in the French archive and in current scholarship. The dispute over postcolonial studies in this European venue is symptomatic of disagreement about the status of French colonial history and the category of race in the construction of contemporary national narrativ…
Anti-Crisis
Two / Africa Otherwise
L'Afrique, autrement: Dépasser la crise
Bien que la crise soit clairement définie par une conjoncture historique bien précise (guerre, récession, famine) - ou par un moment de bifurcation dans l'histoire - elle est devenue depuis trois décennies déjà la condition ontologique du continent africain, son état permanent. Peut-on parler d'un état de crise sur le long terme ? Comment penser l'Afrique autrement que sous le signe de la crise ? C'est la question centrale de cet article. Au lieu…
Anti-Crisis: Penser avec et contre les crises
Sur quels fondements épistémiques l’état de « crise » peut-il être déclaré ? Quel rapport un tel diagnostic entretient-il avec nos représentations de l’histoire, du fonctionnement routinier des organisations et des marchés ? Ces questions sont au coeur des recherches de Janet Roitman, professeure d’anthropologie à la\nNew School for Social Research de New York City, après avoir été chercheuse au CNRS (Institut Marcel Mauss/CNRS-EHESS). Ses travau…
Crisis in history or crisis historiography
History in Financial Times sheds light on the historiography of contemporary finance. But there is a tension in the book that is inescapable: between the production of crisis historiography, on the one hand, and the practice of the concept of crisis, on the other. There is, in other words, a barely articulated distinction between crisis as a "metahistorical force" and crisis as a "peculiar, naturalist" category
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