Ilan Kapoor is a professor of environmental studies at York University. He is the author of Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity and The Postcolonial Politics of Development.
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List of Illustrations
Chapter Summaries
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ilan Kapoor
Part 1. Libidinal Economy and Political Economy
1. Faith, Fantasy, and Crisis: Racialized Financial Discipline in Europe
Dan Bousfield
2. The Logic of Humiliation in Financial Conquest
Maureen Sioh
3. Beyond the End of the World: Breaking Attachment to a Dying Planet
Robert Fletcher
4. Integrative and Responsive Desires: Resources for an Alternative Political Economy
Eleanor MacDonald
Part 2. Cultural Anxieties
5. “I Love Death”: War in Syria and the Anxiety of the Other
Anna J. Secor
6. Empowering Women: A Symptom of Development? 
Chizu Sato
7. Architectural Enjoyment: Lefebvre and Lacan
Lucas Pohl
8. Anamorphosis of Capital: Black Holes, Gothic Monsters, and the Will of God
Japhy Wilson
Part 3. The GlObal in the Local: Desire, Resistance, and the City
9. A Feminist Psychoanalytic Perspective on Glass Architecture in Singapore
Nathan F. Bullock
10. City Life: Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size Fetish
Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn and Rubia R. Valente
11. Corruption, Left Castration, and the Decay of an Urban Popular Movement in Brazil: A Melancholy Story    000
Pieter de Vries
12. The Pervert versus the Hysteric: Politics at Tahrir Square
Ilan Kapoor
Epilogue: Affect and the GlObal Rise of Populism
Ilan Kapoor
Contributors
Index

Ilan Kapoor is a professor of environmental studies at York University. He is the author of Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity and The Postcolonial Politics of Development.