2-0750 CAPITALISM AND GLOBAL ANTHROPOLOGY: MARXISM RESURGENT

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-21:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Patrick Neveling (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Luisa J Steur (SOAS)

Chairs: Terence S Turner (University of Chicago and CORNELL University) and Belinda Leach (University of Guelph)

Discussants: Neil Smith (Graduate Center, CUNY)

18:00

Bare life, labor-power, mobility, and global space: Toward a Marxian anthropology?

Nicholas P De Genova (Goldsmiths, University of London)

18:15

African migrants in "the kingdom of bling": Experiences of a disenfranchised labor force in neoliberal Dubai

Michaela P. Pelican (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

18:30

Discussion

18:45

Ethnographic engagements with the crisis of capitalism, the Marxist Left, and the reclaiming of politics in Romania

Florin Andrei Poenaru (Central European University)

19:00

Historical waves of dispossession in Western Orissa (India): An ethnographic critique of Harvey’s “dual domains” of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle

Christian Strümpell (South Asia Institute)

19:15

The production of space and energy: Conflicts around land and memory in Southern Catalonia (Spain)

Jaume Franquesa (SUNY)

19:30

Discussion

19:45

Break

20:00

Blankets, Overaccumulation and "spatio-temporal fixes" in longue durée perspective: The 19th century Kwakiutl Potlatch vs. the 1948 outsourcing of New Hampshire's cotton mills to the world's first Export Processing Zone

Patrick Neveling (University of Bern, Switzerland)

20:15

Urban restructuring and the (re)production of marginality in post-Communist Romania

Aniko Viola Horvath (Central European University)

20:30

Reforming the development dictatorship: Ideas of globalization and the disciplining of labor in South Korea

George Baca (Dong-A University/John Jay College)

20:45

Discussant

Neil Smith (Graduate Center, CUNY)

21:00

Discussion

21:15

Discussion

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