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oapen-20.500.12657-222852024-03-22T19:23:26Z The Licit Life of Capitalism Appel, Hannah racial capitalism corporation Africa contract offshore liberalism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. Hannah Appel draws on extensive fieldwork with managers and rig workers, lawyers and bureaucrats, the expat wives of American oil executives and the Equatoguinean women who work in their homes, to turn conventional critiques of capitalism on their head, arguing that market practices do not merely exacerbate inequality; they are made by it. People and places differentially valued by gender, race, and colonial histories are the terrain on which the rules of capitalist economy are built. Appel shows how the corporate form and the contract, offshore rigs and economic theory are the assemblages of liberalism and race, expertise and gender, technology and domesticity that enable the licit life of capitalism—practices that are legally sanctioned, widely replicated, and ordinary, at the same time as they are messy, contested, and, arguably, indefensible. 2020-03-27 11:27:44 2020-04-01T06:48:10Z 2020-04-01T06:48:10Z 2019 book 1007893 9781478004578; 9781478003915; 9781478003656 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22285 eng application/pdf n/a 9781478090243_OA.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-licit-life-of-capitalism Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478090243 10.1215/9781478090243 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9781478004578; 9781478003915; 9781478003656 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 344 Durham 2020-03-27 11:23:57, Funder name: UCLA/ Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem TOME open access
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The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. Hannah Appel draws on extensive fieldwork with managers and rig workers, lawyers and bureaucrats, the expat wives of American oil executives and the Equatoguinean women who work in their homes, to turn conventional critiques of capitalism on their head, arguing that market practices do not merely exacerbate inequality; they are made by it. People and places differentially valued by gender, race, and colonial histories are the terrain on which the rules of capitalist economy are built. Appel shows how the corporate form and the contract, offshore rigs and economic theory are the assemblages of liberalism and race, expertise and gender, technology and domesticity that enable the licit life of capitalism—practices that are legally sanctioned, widely replicated, and ordinary, at the same time as they are messy, contested, and, arguably, indefensible.
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