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Jean Comaroff
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 73
Citations - 7549
Jean Comaroff is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Modernity & Politics. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 72 publications receiving 7317 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean Comaroff include University of Cape Town & University of Manchester.
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Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming
Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff +1 more
TL;DR: The second coming of capitalism raises a number of conundrums for our understanding of history at the end of the century as discussed by the authors, and some of its corollaries have been the subject of clamorous debate.
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Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony
Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that the major lines of opposition have been not race or class but generation, mediated by gender, and that the encounter of rural South Africa with the contradictory effects of millennial capitalism and the culture of neoliberalism brings "the global" and "the local" into a dialectical interplay.
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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier
TL;DR: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier is discussed in this article, where the authors move beyond the realm of "the long conversation" to examine changes in the material realities and notions of production, value, dress, architecture, medicine, and rights.
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Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
TL;DR: Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff as discussed by the authors and Jean comaroff Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature / Fernando Coronil Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa