An Anthropologist at Davos
Civilization Reimagined from the Top of the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2229216 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aihwa Ong (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | S25 |
| Pages | S128-S147 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/722368 |
| OpenAlex | W4307566344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
As the triumphant power ending World War II, the United States became a global beacon for a reconstituted European political liberalism that could be exported to the world at large. During the Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union (1947-1991), a nation that was led by a Boston "Brahmin" elite and guided by generic Christianity proposed a universalizing democracy to face off with international communism (see, e.g., David Halberstam's [1993] The Best and the Brightest). American ideals of liberty, equality, freedom, and progress were widely circulated in a bid to outpace communism as a competing ideology for nation-building, regional influence, and world unity
Communism · Democracy · Economic history · Elite · Face (sociological concept · Ideology · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Rivalry · Social science · Sociology · World War II · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Development, Ethics, and Society · History · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Globalization and its Discontents
Life in Crisis
Mandarins of the Future
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Sweetness and power
The Long Game
Discreet Power
Double devaluations
Post-Soviet Social
Agricultural Involution
Rule of Experts
The Gift
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order
Everything under the Heavens
Winners take all
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
Ethics
Soft Power
Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis
Nongovernmental Politics
Encountering Development
Situated Knowledges
Worker in the Cane
Powers of sovereignty
Buddha Is Hiding
The galactic polity in Southeast Asia
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Rendering assemblage dialectical
From flows to violence
Conversations with a Polish populist
Financialization and the capitalist moment
What Marco Polo Forgot
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |