Douglas R Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 86403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas R Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston - Clear Lake |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2809-3926 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 433 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
‘True Fascism’
Fascism is no longer the despised agenda of despicable individuals and reviled factions; we all occupy a political field increasingly defined by the exigencies of contemporary fascism. And this fact, even from the perspective of a few years ago, would have been unthinkable. In this short piece, I explore several critical dimensions of this troubling predicament. One insight predominates, the deeply unsettling, and for some heretical, assertion re…
Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology
Global Challenges (FSW)
Quelling inflation
Members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England seek to subdue inflation using 'monetary policy' to regulate the availability of money and credit to the financial system. The central bank 'policy rate' is the blunt instrument conventionally employed to affect the pacing of economic activity, stimulating or retarding growth. Credibly explaining that the rise in interest rates - the 'tightening' of monetary policy - underway a…
Ethnographic Practice in the Present
In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, …
Reframing Welfare
This article explores the historical emergence and current crafting of the expectation documents that Norges Bank Investment Management use to exercise ownership of the corporations in which the world's largest sovereign wealth-fund invests. It shows how these expectations are grounded in characteristics that render sustainability an immanent issue to this fund, and how the documents emerge from collaborative relations that arise from a 'producti…
Cultural Disenchantments
Cultural Disenchantments
Fast Capitalism
Fascism at eye level
Fascism in our time is emerging not as a single party or movement within a particular nation-state but rather as a dispersed phenomenon that reverberates across the continent nested within the political contradictions of the European Union. Rather than focusing on a specific group to determine whether it is or is not "fascist," we must look at how diverse parties and movements are linked together in cross-border coalitions revealing the political…
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Central bank capitalism
Central bankers can create money out of thin air; they can stop the misbehaviour of some of the most powerful institutions in the contemporary world - financial markets - in a matter of hours, if not minutes. In the era of central bank capitalism virtually every aspect of economic life has come under the sway of financial and monetary concerns. The author has focused on a particularly uncanny aspect of this regime: how central bankers endow the f…
Fascism 2
This guest editorial implores anthropologists to take a stance against the strengthening of fascism in Europe
Public Currency
This article examines the operation of an emerging monetary regime in which 'mere words', as Yellen, Janet (2013. 'Communications in Monetary Policy.' Speech presented at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers 50th Anniversary Conference, Washington, DC, April 4) recently noted, play a decisive role. Drawing on my field research in five central banks - the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Bundesbank, the Bank of England, the Riksban…
Economy of Words
Cultural Intimacy and the Vicissitudes of the E uro
Ivan Karp (1943-2011)
My long 1989
Interviews with the leadership of the Movimento Friuli (MF) were the last task, almost a postscript, of a study that preoccupied me during the 1980s. After a decade of research in the Friuli region of northeast Italy I was reasonably satisfied that I had achieved something like closure on the project. I was reluctant in the summer of 1987 to open any new lines of inquiry that might disturb my contentment
Emergent anthropologies
In my work with George Marcus we have sought to develop a particular design of and for anthropological projects that allows ethnography to operate as a means to engage analytical perspectives in the making, perspectives that take form prospectively, perspectives that seek to shape contingencies in, of, and about the future. What this demands is that we build our ethnographic project within pre-existing and/or emerging experiments pursued by our s…
Economy of Words
In this essay I introduce the notion of "the economy of words" as the means by which central banks model linguistically and, hence, communicatively economic phenomena operating at the limits of calculation and measurement. In this economy "at large" or "in the wild," words perform the decisive function of creating context-countless contexts-that frame data series, statistical measures, and econometric projections. Within this analytical framework…
Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter
Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter Douglas R. Holmes (bio) and George E. Marcus (bio) Refunctioned ethnography has a more complicated cast of characters than the conversations traditional between the ethnographer and native subjects or informants. In contrast to the bilateral encounter over a camp table, ethnography for present situations is normally if not invariably constituted by the ethnogra…
Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization
Frontiers of Capital
Intellectual Vocations in the City of Gold
Building Europe
Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration. Cris Shore. New York: Routledge, 2000. 258 pp
Provincializing Europe
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Dipesh Chakrabaity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 301 pp., notes, index
Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter
Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter Douglas R. Holmes (bio) and George E. Marcus (bio) Refunctioned ethnography has a more complicated cast of characters than the conversations traditional between the ethnographer and native subjects or informants. In contrast to the bilateral encounter over a camp table, ethnography for present situations is normally if not invariably constituted by the ethnogra…
Economy of Words
In this essay I introduce the notion of "the economy of words" as the means by which central banks model linguistically and, hence, communicatively economic phenomena operating at the limits of calculation and measurement. In this economy "at large" or "in the wild," words perform the decisive function of creating context-countless contexts-that frame data series, statistical measures, and econometric projections. Within this analytical framework…
Provincializing Europe
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Dipesh Chakrabaity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 301 pp., notes, index
Cultural Disenchantments
Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied. His book portrays the dissonant crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. Examining the region of Friuli in northeast Italy, it shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditi…
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Fascism at eye level
Fascism in our time is emerging not as a single party or movement within a particular nation-state but rather as a dispersed phenomenon that reverberates across the continent nested within the political contradictions of the European Union. Rather than focusing on a specific group to determine whether it is or is not "fascist," we must look at how diverse parties and movements are linked together in cross-border coalitions revealing the political…
Fascism 2
This guest editorial implores anthropologists to take a stance against the strengthening of fascism in Europe
A peasant-worker model in a northern Italian context
This paper examines the peasant-worker phenomenon as an enduring adaptation that has persisted for centuries in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy- A preliminary model of peasant-worker behavior is presented that addresses two basic issues: [1] how peasant-worker strategies have developed historically; and (2) how peasant-worker strategies are tied to the social dynamics of rural households. The aim is to create a unified framework for the c…
An Approach to Modern Labor
The spread of manufacture in the European countryside initiated the formation of vital and complex rural laboring groups that defy neat classification. The nature of livelihood in these rural settings furthered an integration of diverse productive involvements rather than the creation of narrow occupational niches. In the course of their labor careers, men and women moved between agrarian and industrial pursuits-weaving linen cloth, spinning silk…
Reframing Welfare
This article explores the historical emergence and current crafting of the expectation documents that Norges Bank Investment Management use to exercise ownership of the corporations in which the world's largest sovereign wealth-fund invests. It shows how these expectations are grounded in characteristics that render sustainability an immanent issue to this fund, and how the documents emerge from collaborative relations that arise from a 'producti…
Public Currency
This article examines the operation of an emerging monetary regime in which 'mere words', as Yellen, Janet (2013. 'Communications in Monetary Policy.' Speech presented at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers 50th Anniversary Conference, Washington, DC, April 4) recently noted, play a decisive role. Drawing on my field research in five central banks - the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Bundesbank, the Bank of England, the Riksban…
Intellectual Vocations in the City of Gold
Central bank capitalism
Central bankers can create money out of thin air; they can stop the misbehaviour of some of the most powerful institutions in the contemporary world - financial markets - in a matter of hours, if not minutes. In the era of central bank capitalism virtually every aspect of economic life has come under the sway of financial and monetary concerns. The author has focused on a particularly uncanny aspect of this regime: how central bankers endow the f…
Quelling inflation
Members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England seek to subdue inflation using 'monetary policy' to regulate the availability of money and credit to the financial system. The central bank 'policy rate' is the blunt instrument conventionally employed to affect the pacing of economic activity, stimulating or retarding growth. Credibly explaining that the rise in interest rates - the 'tightening' of monetary policy - underway a…
Ethnographic Practice in the Present
In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, …
Ivan Karp (1943-2011)
Emergent anthropologies
In my work with George Marcus we have sought to develop a particular design of and for anthropological projects that allows ethnography to operate as a means to engage analytical perspectives in the making, perspectives that take form prospectively, perspectives that seek to shape contingencies in, of, and about the future. What this demands is that we build our ethnographic project within pre-existing and/or emerging experiments pursued by our s…
A peasant-worker model in a northern Italian context
This paper examines the peasant-worker phenomenon as an enduring adaptation that has persisted for centuries in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy- A preliminary model of peasant-worker behavior is presented that addresses two basic issues: [1] how peasant-worker strategies have developed historically; and (2) how peasant-worker strategies are tied to the social dynamics of rural households. The aim is to create a unified framework for the c…
An Approach to Modern Labor
The spread of manufacture in the European countryside initiated the formation of vital and complex rural laboring groups that defy neat classification. The nature of livelihood in these rural settings furthered an integration of diverse productive involvements rather than the creation of narrow occupational niches. In the course of their labor careers, men and women moved between agrarian and industrial pursuits-weaving linen cloth, spinning silk…
Cultural disenchantments
Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied. His book portrays the dissonant crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. Examining the region of Friuli in northeast Italy, it shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditi…
CHAPTER 2 Traditional Society and Its Disenchantments
Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change
Cultural Disenchantments
Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied. His book portrays the dissonant crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. Examining the region of Friuli in northeast Italy, it shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditi…
La vie quotidienne au parlement européen . Marc ABÉLÈS
Ethnography within a Pluralist Europe
Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 74, Number 1, January 2001
Provincializing Europe
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Dipesh Chakrabaity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 301 pp., notes, index
Building Europe
Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration. Cris Shore. New York: Routledge, 2000. 258 pp
Frontiers of Capital
Intellectual Vocations in the City of Gold
Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization
Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter
Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter Douglas R. Holmes (bio) and George E. Marcus (bio) Refunctioned ethnography has a more complicated cast of characters than the conversations traditional between the ethnographer and native subjects or informants. In contrast to the bilateral encounter over a camp table, ethnography for present situations is normally if not invariably constituted by the ethnogra…
Economy of Words
In this essay I introduce the notion of "the economy of words" as the means by which central banks model linguistically and, hence, communicatively economic phenomena operating at the limits of calculation and measurement. In this economy "at large" or "in the wild," words perform the decisive function of creating context-countless contexts-that frame data series, statistical measures, and econometric projections. Within this analytical framework…
My long 1989
Interviews with the leadership of the Movimento Friuli (MF) were the last task, almost a postscript, of a study that preoccupied me during the 1980s. After a decade of research in the Friuli region of northeast Italy I was reasonably satisfied that I had achieved something like closure on the project. I was reluctant in the summer of 1987 to open any new lines of inquiry that might disturb my contentment
Emergent anthropologies
In my work with George Marcus we have sought to develop a particular design of and for anthropological projects that allows ethnography to operate as a means to engage analytical perspectives in the making, perspectives that take form prospectively, perspectives that seek to shape contingencies in, of, and about the future. What this demands is that we build our ethnographic project within pre-existing and/or emerging experiments pursued by our s…
Economy of Words
Cultural Intimacy and the Vicissitudes of the E uro
Ivan Karp (1943-2011)
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Central bank capitalism
Central bankers can create money out of thin air; they can stop the misbehaviour of some of the most powerful institutions in the contemporary world - financial markets - in a matter of hours, if not minutes. In the era of central bank capitalism virtually every aspect of economic life has come under the sway of financial and monetary concerns. The author has focused on a particularly uncanny aspect of this regime: how central bankers endow the f…
Fascism 2
This guest editorial implores anthropologists to take a stance against the strengthening of fascism in Europe
Public Currency
This article examines the operation of an emerging monetary regime in which 'mere words', as Yellen, Janet (2013. 'Communications in Monetary Policy.' Speech presented at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers 50th Anniversary Conference, Washington, DC, April 4) recently noted, play a decisive role. Drawing on my field research in five central banks - the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Bundesbank, the Bank of England, the Riksban…
Fascism at eye level
Fascism in our time is emerging not as a single party or movement within a particular nation-state but rather as a dispersed phenomenon that reverberates across the continent nested within the political contradictions of the European Union. Rather than focusing on a specific group to determine whether it is or is not "fascist," we must look at how diverse parties and movements are linked together in cross-border coalitions revealing the political…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · History (6 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (6 works)