Tracking Capital

<p><b>Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture ecology and capitalism.</b></p><p><i>Tracking Capital</i> introduces new ways to understand the entanglement of cultural forms and practices in economic social and ecological crises and struggles. Building on the fundamental insights of world-systems analysis the book offers readers a series of rubrics keywords and concepts-such as zemiperiphery registration and commodity chains-to enable more integrated transdisciplinary methods of literary and cultural study. Throughout Sharae Deckard Michael Niblett and Stephen Shapiro foreground the role of culture in both consolidating and contesting the classism racism sexism and ecocide constitutive of the modern world-system. In the context of capitalism's ongoing bloody war against the poor the powerless and the planet <i>Tracking Capital</i> provides tools with which to diagnose the morbid symptoms of the present as well as to plot possible steps on the road to a better future.</p>