G Peebles
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 16754 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Peebles |
| PRENOMES | G |
| SOBRENOME | Peebles |
| ASSINATURA | PEEBLES G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5427-5902 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 284 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The First and Last Bank
A groundbreaking approach to currency and community that may allow us to seize carbon from the atmosphere—and offer a new tool in the fight against climate change. Through the ages, currencies have been based on all manner of objects—from tobacco leaves to salt to gold to collateralized debt obligations. The only thing that this odd assortment of objects shares is the communal belief that these objects could harness and direct economic growth—tha…
The Naysayers' Science
Commentary on Ghosh ‘Relational Inequality and Economic Outcomes’
Banking on Digital Money
As cash has suddenly gone missing from Swedish life, a growing range of citizens and institutions have sounded the alarm that cash enabled a space of egalitarian access now under threat. But because commercial bank currency is gradually displacing public central bank currency, cashlessness in Sweden is not only threatening its egalitarian ethos but also the Swedish Central Bank's capacity to provide a guaranteed state payment mechanism. The conse…
Hoarding and Saving
The negative connotations of “hoards” has blinded us to their actual ubiquity, bringing to the fore only the most egregious exemplars, such as dusty piles of gold or junk. Whether valued or valueless, hoards are often seen as harboring dark forces of anti-sociality and death. But anthropology has far too much data on the power of anti-sociality and death in society to cast a simplistic gaze upon hoarding. Instead, hoarding needs to be more carefu…
From debtors’ prisons to offshore havens
This article aims to place dependency into a conversation with its opposite, sovereignty. It does so by proposing that the two concepts work dialectically, thereby casting doubt on the ideal type of sovereignty that predominates in political theory. Relying on examples from 19th‐century debtors’ prisons and 21st‐century offshore havens, the article argues that complete sovereignty is a powerful and driving myth that must be continually contested,…
Exchange in Anthropology
A boom, in theory
Editor's preface to the Hau Book Symposium on Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Anthropology and capital
Editor's preface to the Hau Book Symposium on Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the twenty-first century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University
The human economy
Rehabilitating the Hoard
If a thriving capitalist economy relies on the innumerable small deposits of savings that local people place in banks, then 'unbanking' represents a threat to just such an economy. And yet, across the globe, billions remain outside the formal banking sector, thereby reducing the ability of formal banks to set these savings in motion. This unbanking has been the subject of many reports and studies by economists, corporations and non-profit organiz…
Washing Away the Sins of Debt
This article seeks to come to terms with the extraordinarily swift demise of the debtors' prison in multiple countries during the nineteenth century. While focusing primarily on the reform debate in England, I argue that the debtors' prison quickly came to be seen as a barbaric aberration within the expanding commercial life of the nineteenth century. By turning to a copious pamphletic literature from the era of its demise, I show how pamphleteer…
Filth and Lucre
This review essay takes a synoptic view of the ethnographic record concerning the long-standing and cross-cultural associations between money and dirt. In questioning why this association crops up as often as it does, I turn to the anthropological literature on the study of metaphor and metonym. By doing so, I offer a reinterpretation of the money form, pointing out that dirt—as a transgressive mediator between discrete realms—is itself a cross-c…
Whitewashing and leg-bailing
This article contends that the anthropological analysis of ritual can shed light on our understanding of insolvency and bankruptcy practices. Societies without such legal rituals see a far higher incidence of what was known as 'leg‐bail' in 19th‐century Britain – that is, people disappear, becoming effectively dead to society. As Mann crisply puts it in his magisterial study of colonial American debt system, without a bankruptcy law in place, peo…
The Euro and Its Rivals
[This book]... is an ethnographic study arguing that a bridge connecting Malmö, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark, has similar cultural effects as a common European currency. Peebles (anthropology, The New School), who lived in Malmö during the construction of the Øresund Bridge, is primarily concerned with boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. He simplifies the world by defining several visions of the ideal, or what he calls utopian visions, and …
A Community of Europeans? Transnational Identities and Public Spheres by Thomas Risse
The Anthropology of Credit and Debt
Whether concerned with kinship or with kula, anthropology's interest in credit and debt goes back to the very beginnings of the discipline. Nevertheless, this review dedicates itself primarily to more recent research trends into credit and debt's powerful nature and effects. Following Mauss, credit and debt are treated as an indissoluble dyad that contributes to diverse regulatory mechanisms of sociality, time, space, and the body. Anthropology's…
Hoarding, storing value and the credit crunch
A geography of debauchery
By comparing the spatial organization of Swedish labor and leisure practices today with the movements and stereotypes tied to previous generations of Sweden's sizeable population of so-called "vagrants," this article studies the impact of state policy on the spatial imagination of both citizens and other sojourners within its bounds. Because the ethnographic research for the article took place in a new transnational city that is being created by …
Inverting the Panopticon
Research Article| May 01 2008 Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Future Gustav Peebles Gustav Peebles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 233–265. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gustav Peebles; Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Fut…
We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
Journal Article We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship Get access We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship by Etienne Balibar, translatedby James Swenson. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2004. 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $17.95. Gustav Peebles Gustav Peebles Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vo…
Comment — The Euro
"A Very Eden of the Innate Rights of Man"? A Marxist Look at the European Union Treaties and Case Law
In this paper I approach the European Union Treaties (Rome and Maastricht) and the European Court of Justice's jurisprudence from a Marxist standpoint. I argue that the treaties and case law of the European Union (EU) revolve around the rights of things (commodities), rather than of people. People primarily gain rights within the EU by demonstrating that they embody exchange value and are therefore personified commodities; people are not accorded…
A Very Eden of the Innate Rights of Man”? A Marxist Look at the European Union Treaties and Case Law
In this paper I approach the European Union Treaties (Rome and Maastricht) and the European Court of Justice's jurisprudence from a Marxist standpoint. I argue that the treaties and case law of the European Union (EU) revolve around the rights of things (commodities), rather than of people. People primarily gain rights within the EU by demonstrating that they embody exchange value and are therefore personified commodities; people are not accorded…
The Anthropology of Credit and Debt
Whether concerned with kinship or with kula, anthropology's interest in credit and debt goes back to the very beginnings of the discipline. Nevertheless, this review dedicates itself primarily to more recent research trends into credit and debt's powerful nature and effects. Following Mauss, credit and debt are treated as an indissoluble dyad that contributes to diverse regulatory mechanisms of sociality, time, space, and the body. Anthropology's…
Rehabilitating the Hoard
If a thriving capitalist economy relies on the innumerable small deposits of savings that local people place in banks, then 'unbanking' represents a threat to just such an economy. And yet, across the globe, billions remain outside the formal banking sector, thereby reducing the ability of formal banks to set these savings in motion. This unbanking has been the subject of many reports and studies by economists, corporations and non-profit organiz…
We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
Journal Article We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship Get access We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship by Etienne Balibar, translatedby James Swenson. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2004. 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $17.95. Gustav Peebles Gustav Peebles Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vo…
Inverting the Panopticon
Research Article| May 01 2008 Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Future Gustav Peebles Gustav Peebles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 233–265. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gustav Peebles; Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Fut…
Washing Away the Sins of Debt
This article seeks to come to terms with the extraordinarily swift demise of the debtors' prison in multiple countries during the nineteenth century. While focusing primarily on the reform debate in England, I argue that the debtors' prison quickly came to be seen as a barbaric aberration within the expanding commercial life of the nineteenth century. By turning to a copious pamphletic literature from the era of its demise, I show how pamphleteer…
Banking on Digital Money
As cash has suddenly gone missing from Swedish life, a growing range of citizens and institutions have sounded the alarm that cash enabled a space of egalitarian access now under threat. But because commercial bank currency is gradually displacing public central bank currency, cashlessness in Sweden is not only threatening its egalitarian ethos but also the Swedish Central Bank's capacity to provide a guaranteed state payment mechanism. The conse…
Anthropology and capital
Editor's preface to the Hau Book Symposium on Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the twenty-first century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Comment — The Euro
"A Very Eden of the Innate Rights of Man"? A Marxist Look at the European Union Treaties and Case Law
In this paper I approach the European Union Treaties (Rome and Maastricht) and the European Court of Justice's jurisprudence from a Marxist standpoint. I argue that the treaties and case law of the European Union (EU) revolve around the rights of things (commodities), rather than of people. People primarily gain rights within the EU by demonstrating that they embody exchange value and are therefore personified commodities; people are not accorded…
A boom, in theory
Editor's preface to the Hau Book Symposium on Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
A geography of debauchery
By comparing the spatial organization of Swedish labor and leisure practices today with the movements and stereotypes tied to previous generations of Sweden's sizeable population of so-called "vagrants," this article studies the impact of state policy on the spatial imagination of both citizens and other sojourners within its bounds. Because the ethnographic research for the article took place in a new transnational city that is being created by …
A Very Eden of the Innate Rights of Man”? A Marxist Look at the European Union Treaties and Case Law
In this paper I approach the European Union Treaties (Rome and Maastricht) and the European Court of Justice's jurisprudence from a Marxist standpoint. I argue that the treaties and case law of the European Union (EU) revolve around the rights of things (commodities), rather than of people. People primarily gain rights within the EU by demonstrating that they embody exchange value and are therefore personified commodities; people are not accorded…
"A Very Eden of the Innate Rights of Man"? A Marxist Look at the European Union Treaties and Case Law
In this paper I approach the European Union Treaties (Rome and Maastricht) and the European Court of Justice's jurisprudence from a Marxist standpoint. I argue that the treaties and case law of the European Union (EU) revolve around the rights of things (commodities), rather than of people. People primarily gain rights within the EU by demonstrating that they embody exchange value and are therefore personified commodities; people are not accorded…
A Very Eden of the Innate Rights of Man”? A Marxist Look at the European Union Treaties and Case Law
In this paper I approach the European Union Treaties (Rome and Maastricht) and the European Court of Justice's jurisprudence from a Marxist standpoint. I argue that the treaties and case law of the European Union (EU) revolve around the rights of things (commodities), rather than of people. People primarily gain rights within the EU by demonstrating that they embody exchange value and are therefore personified commodities; people are not accorded…
Comment — The Euro
We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
Journal Article We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship Get access We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship by Etienne Balibar, translatedby James Swenson. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2004. 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $17.95. Gustav Peebles Gustav Peebles Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vo…
A geography of debauchery
By comparing the spatial organization of Swedish labor and leisure practices today with the movements and stereotypes tied to previous generations of Sweden's sizeable population of so-called "vagrants," this article studies the impact of state policy on the spatial imagination of both citizens and other sojourners within its bounds. Because the ethnographic research for the article took place in a new transnational city that is being created by …
Inverting the Panopticon
Research Article| May 01 2008 Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Future Gustav Peebles Gustav Peebles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 233–265. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gustav Peebles; Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Fut…
Hoarding, storing value and the credit crunch
The Anthropology of Credit and Debt
Whether concerned with kinship or with kula, anthropology's interest in credit and debt goes back to the very beginnings of the discipline. Nevertheless, this review dedicates itself primarily to more recent research trends into credit and debt's powerful nature and effects. Following Mauss, credit and debt are treated as an indissoluble dyad that contributes to diverse regulatory mechanisms of sociality, time, space, and the body. Anthropology's…
The Euro and Its Rivals
[This book]... is an ethnographic study arguing that a bridge connecting Malmö, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark, has similar cultural effects as a common European currency. Peebles (anthropology, The New School), who lived in Malmö during the construction of the Øresund Bridge, is primarily concerned with boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. He simplifies the world by defining several visions of the ideal, or what he calls utopian visions, and …
A Community of Europeans? Transnational Identities and Public Spheres by Thomas Risse
Filth and Lucre
This review essay takes a synoptic view of the ethnographic record concerning the long-standing and cross-cultural associations between money and dirt. In questioning why this association crops up as often as it does, I turn to the anthropological literature on the study of metaphor and metonym. By doing so, I offer a reinterpretation of the money form, pointing out that dirt—as a transgressive mediator between discrete realms—is itself a cross-c…
Whitewashing and leg-bailing
This article contends that the anthropological analysis of ritual can shed light on our understanding of insolvency and bankruptcy practices. Societies without such legal rituals see a far higher incidence of what was known as 'leg‐bail' in 19th‐century Britain – that is, people disappear, becoming effectively dead to society. As Mann crisply puts it in his magisterial study of colonial American debt system, without a bankruptcy law in place, peo…
Washing Away the Sins of Debt
This article seeks to come to terms with the extraordinarily swift demise of the debtors' prison in multiple countries during the nineteenth century. While focusing primarily on the reform debate in England, I argue that the debtors' prison quickly came to be seen as a barbaric aberration within the expanding commercial life of the nineteenth century. By turning to a copious pamphletic literature from the era of its demise, I show how pamphleteer…
The human economy
Rehabilitating the Hoard
If a thriving capitalist economy relies on the innumerable small deposits of savings that local people place in banks, then 'unbanking' represents a threat to just such an economy. And yet, across the globe, billions remain outside the formal banking sector, thereby reducing the ability of formal banks to set these savings in motion. This unbanking has been the subject of many reports and studies by economists, corporations and non-profit organiz…
Exchange in Anthropology
A boom, in theory
Editor's preface to the Hau Book Symposium on Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Anthropology and capital
Editor's preface to the Hau Book Symposium on Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the twenty-first century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Hoarding and Saving
The negative connotations of “hoards” has blinded us to their actual ubiquity, bringing to the fore only the most egregious exemplars, such as dusty piles of gold or junk. Whether valued or valueless, hoards are often seen as harboring dark forces of anti-sociality and death. But anthropology has far too much data on the power of anti-sociality and death in society to cast a simplistic gaze upon hoarding. Instead, hoarding needs to be more carefu…
From debtors’ prisons to offshore havens
This article aims to place dependency into a conversation with its opposite, sovereignty. It does so by proposing that the two concepts work dialectically, thereby casting doubt on the ideal type of sovereignty that predominates in political theory. Relying on examples from 19th‐century debtors’ prisons and 21st‐century offshore havens, the article argues that complete sovereignty is a powerful and driving myth that must be continually contested,…
Banking on Digital Money
As cash has suddenly gone missing from Swedish life, a growing range of citizens and institutions have sounded the alarm that cash enabled a space of egalitarian access now under threat. But because commercial bank currency is gradually displacing public central bank currency, cashlessness in Sweden is not only threatening its egalitarian ethos but also the Swedish Central Bank's capacity to provide a guaranteed state payment mechanism. The conse…
Commentary on Ghosh ‘Relational Inequality and Economic Outcomes’
The First and Last Bank
A groundbreaking approach to currency and community that may allow us to seize carbon from the atmosphere—and offer a new tool in the fight against climate change. Through the ages, currencies have been based on all manner of objects—from tobacco leaves to salt to gold to collateralized debt obligations. The only thing that this odd assortment of objects shares is the communal belief that these objects could harness and direct economic growth—tha…
The Naysayers' Science
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