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Dear colleagues,
We are seeking two more contributions to the following panel for the AAA annual meeting in Montreal this year.
Please note that the submission deadline for panel and paper applications is this Friday, Apri 15th. It would thus be great to receive abstracts sent to either one of us by Thursday this week so we can give feedback and discuss the slightly delicate process of submitting abstracts online on the AAA (see also: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/Call-for-Papers.cfm)
We are looking forward to hear from you!
Capitalism and Global Anthropology: Marxism Resurgent
AAA Panel Proposal, Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 14 April 2011
Luisa Steur, CEU Budapest, Hungary/SOAS London, UK, [log in to unmask]
Patrick Neveling, University of Berne, Switzerland, [log in to unmask]
As economic and environmental crises are ever more global and intensely affect people across the world, anthropology is seeing a renewed interest in connecting local struggles and place-making efforts to a global relational totality. Phenomena such as the demise of financial regulation and growth of the super-rich while expediency haunts large proportions of the working class, the overproduction by industrial agriculture combined with food riots across large parts of the world, or even the predominance of identity over class politics at a time of growing inequality moreover strongly remind us of the capitalist nature of this larger context.
This panel seeks to engage with insights generated by Marxism and related approaches in anthropology and its wider trans-disciplinary environment that together have consistently focused on further developing, complicating, and renewing our understanding of the complex and evolving working of global capitalism. We feel that it is time to build more on the legacy of political economy in anthropology, also in the hope that it can allow for a firmer grasp – and further questioning – of what many anthropologists today refer to as the global context of “neoliberalism”. We take inspiration from the way that Marxian social history and historical sociology in the seventies and eighties dynamized anthropological understanding of how to not just study the local and the global but the dialectic interconnectedness of phenomena impacting on both spheres of social complexity, across time and space. Revisiting this legacy, present in the work of scholars such as Eric Wolf, Sidney Mintz, E. P Thompson and Charles Tilly, can inspire anthropology to dynamize itself in a similar manner through a dialogue with the rich field of contemporary Marxian approaches in geography, global history, and political philosophy. Our interest is to develop similar but present-day theoretical approaches that help explain phenomena “on the ground” while further interrogating our understanding of the contemporary totality of social relations as for instance defined by “accumulation by dispossession” (David Harvey), “the end of liberal supremacy” (Immanuel Wallerstein), or the “re-scaling” of space (Neill Smith). Vice versa, we are also interested in how the many recent advances in anthropological methods can be used not to deny but to enhance theoretical understandings in anthropology and related disciplines of the structuring dynamics within the world system.
We welcome papers that by interrogating global capitalism, posit original insights into localized phenomena and globalizing processes and open up new questions for research and debate.
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Patrick Neveling
Historical Institute
University of Berne, Switzerland
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Mobile (UK): +44 78 11645187
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