Desire

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ID8206724
AuthorsM King (0000-0003-0446-7698, University of California, Riverside, corresponding author), Matthew W King (Department of Religious Studies, University of California-Riverside, CHASS Interdisciplinary North, Riverside, CA, USA)
Year2019
Volume87
Issue3
Pages625-634
Publication date2019-09-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jaarel/lfz056
OpenAlexW4235936864
LanguageEN
References cited14

AN INTERROGATION of “desire” has much to contribute to the study of religion, capital, and capitalism. This is particularly evident as we move from more widely studied liberal, post-Protestant, and secular social ecologies to capital’s new homelands in Asia. Although thinking about economy and religion together is hardly new, exploring the “making with” desire that always accompanies capital’s circulatory histories represents another, vastly understudied challenge to the putative secularity of economic behavior. Desire—abstracted, innate, or fostered—is basic to the practices, institutions, tools, and aesthetics of capital, whether in the brochures of state-driven development programs in Cambodia, the hopeful chatter of Bangladeshi women lining up for small-scale loans, the modeling of GDP in Japanese newspapers, or the chanting over wallets held up towards tngri deities in post-socialist Mongolia. At the intersection of global financial markets and individual life, how does desire spatialize capital’s large-scale motion into Asia over the last few decades? In the currents of capital accumulation, how does desire temporalize local histories and provide fresh resources for self- and community cultivation? Moreover, do such negotiations affirm or trouble the abstracted modeling of desire that necessarily underlies any interpretation of subjectivity and agency in the humanities or social sciences? How do such abstractions of desire accompany (and direct) capital’s eastward concentration? What otherwise yearning and modeling of human becoming do their receptions reveal

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Capital (architecture) · Capital accumulation · Capitalism · Economics · Epistemology · Human capital · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics

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