2019 documentary film by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

The origins of nationalism and anti-globalization are traced by the bestselling author of Imagined Communities. In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siècle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea. A jewelled pomegranate packed with nitroglycerine is primed to blow away Manila's 19th-century colonial elite at the climax of El Filibusterismo, whose author, the great political novelist José Rizal, was executed in 1896 by the Spanis authorities in the Philippines at the age of 35. Anderson explores the impact of avant-garde European literature and politics on Rizal and his contemporary, the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes, who was imprisoned in Manila after the violent uprisings of 1896 and later incarcerated, together with Catalan anarchists, in the prison fortress of Montjuich in Barcelona. On his return to the Philippines, by now under American occupation, Isabelo formed the first militant trade unions under the influence of Malatesta and Bakunin. Anderson considers the complex intellectual interactions of these young Filipinos with the new "science" of anthropology in Germany and Austro-Hungary, and with post-Communard experimentalists in Paris, against a background of militant anarchism in Spain, France, Italy and the Americas, José Marti's armed uprising in Cuba and anti-imperialist protests in China and Japan. In doing so, he depicts the dense intertwining of anarchist internationalism and radical anti-colonialism. Under Three Flags is a brilliantly original work on the explosive history of national independence and global politics.

We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning—and risk hiding or distorting as much as we reveal. With The Seductions of Quantification, leading legal anthropologist Sally Engle Merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy—overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge.

How do the one percent hold on to their wealth? And how do they keep getting richer, despite financial crises and the myriad of taxes on income, capital gains, and inheritance? Capital without Borders takes a novel approach to these questions by looking at professionals who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world’s richest people: wealth managers. Brooke Harrington spent nearly eight years studying this little-known group—including two years training to become a wealth manager herself. She then “followed the money” to the eighteen most popular tax havens in the world, interviewing practitioners to understand how they helped their high-net-worth clients avoid taxes, creditors, and disgruntled heirs—all while staying just within the letter of the law. Capital without Borders reveals how wealth managers use offshore banks, shell corporations, and trusts to shield billions in private wealth not only from taxation but from all manner of legal obligations. And it shows how practitioners justify their work, despite evidence that it erodes government authority and contributes to global inequality. Harrington’s research offers the first glimpse into the tactics and mentality of a secretive profession that controls astonishingly large flows of capital around the world. Based on sixty-five practitioner interviews—conducted in the traditional financial centers of Europe and the Americas as well as the up-and-coming tax havens of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific—Capital without Borders gives voice for the first time to an elite that has worked quietly and unobtrusively to enrich the one percent.

How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system - a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. "Global "Body Shopping"" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as "body shopping."In this practice, a group of consultants - body shops - in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement. Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities - stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages - sustain this flexibility.

"China Blue" is an engrossing documentary that tells the story of 3 teenage girls who leave their rural homes in China to come work for a factory that makes blue jeans.

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現代人熱愛速度，執著於用更少的時間做更多的事，要追趕得上就必須不斷加快腳步。我們因此罹患了「時間病」，快速無疑成了一個癮頭、一種崇拜。唯有透過回溯人們被時間搞得筋疲力竭的歷史，探討該如何應因應那讓全人類著魔沉淪的快速文化，釐清為追求速度所付出的代價，我們才能在這個沉迷於快還要更快的世界裡找到放慢腳步的前景。「慢活」運動於焉成型，但它並不是將每件事牛步化，而只是希望活在一個更美好而現代化的世界。一言以蔽之：慢活便是平衡──該快則快，能慢則慢，盡量以音樂家所謂的tempo giusto(正確的速度)生活。放慢速度沒有一成不變的的公式，正確速度也沒有萬用守則。每個人都有權利選擇自己的步調，如果騰出空間容納各種不同速度，這個世界會變得更加豐富。這裡不僅遊說讀者採取一種全新的生活方式，更報導了一場正在全世界實實在在發生著的運動。

《白银资本:重视经济全球化中的东方》是一部极具挑战性的重要著作。它对1500年以来世界各地之间的经济联系作了一个气势恢宏的论述。作者安德烈·贡德·弗兰克把中国置于亚洲的中心，把亚洲置于全球经济的中心。他认为，中国需求白银，欧洲需求中国商品，这二者的结合导致了全世界的商业扩张。与学术界多数人的通常看法不同，在他的分析中，中国在工业革命前的经济史中占据着极其突出和积极的地位。为了阐述他的观点，他广泛利用了其他学者的研究成果，包括研究亚洲和欧洲经济史的专家的最新成果。 西方最初在亚洲经济列车上买了一个三等厢座位，然后包租了整整一个车厢，只是到19世纪才设法取代了亚洲在火车头的位置。名副其实贫穷可怜的欧洲人怎么能买得起亚洲经济列车上哪怕是三等车厢的车票呢？欧洲人想法找到了钱，或者是偷窃，或者是勒索，或者是挣到了钱。