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Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Comaroff, Jean John L. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | What might zombies have to do with the implosion of neoliberal capitalism at the end of the twentieth century? What might they have to do with postcolonial, postrevolutionary nationalism? With labor history? With the ‘‘crisis’’ of the modernist nation-state? Why are these spectral, floating signifiers making an appearance in epic, epidemic proportions in several parts of Africa just now? And why have immigrants—those wanderers in pursuit of work, whose proper place |
| Starting Page | 779 |
| Ending Page | 805 |
| Page Count | 27 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-101-4-779 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://complit.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/COL1000-Week09_Nov11_JohnJeanComaroff.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 17494223 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-4-779 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 101 |
| Journal | The South Atlantic quarterly |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |