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This is a reminder that the Call for Papers for the 17th World
Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences
(IUAES) that will take place in Manchester August 5th-August 10th,
2013 closes tomorrow August 3, 2012. All proposals must be made via
the online form.
Please consider proposing a paper to the panel
Reconfiguring capitalism, reconfiguring industry, reconfiguring livelihoods
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1638
Convenors
Carmen Bueno (Universidad Iberoamericana) and Susana Narotzky
(Universitat de Barcelona)
Short Abstract
Crucial transformations of hegemonic economic models have spread
around the globe. Local development paths are influenced by the
circulation of international flows of different resources, producing
actions and effects, while being the outcome of specific negotiations
of meanings and relationships.
Long Abstract
In the wake of globalization where international flows of commodities,
capital and people have intensified, industry has experienced crucial
transformations based on new parameters of productivity and
innovation. Industry has been re-localized, evolving as a central
asset of emergent countries in a similar way as when it was a growth
model (the 'driving force') of western national economies until the
1970s. In this panel we will focus on the industries that were
considered 'strategic' or 'key' during the first part of the 20th
century (Steel, shipyards, but also automobile, mining, energy, etc.)
and we will analyze the transformations that have resulted from the
demise of the economic-nation-building model that sustained the
development of large, state supported industries and a vision of full
employment. Such industries gave a means of stability and livelihood
to many workers and their families, and they still do, but with the
reconfigurations of the spaces of industrial capitalism, these
workers' lives have also been reconfigured. We will address three
issues in relation to these transformations: 1) The meaning of work
stability vs. uncertainty in the new configurations of the industrial
production structure, in particular its effects on solidarity. 2) The
possibilities of creating meaningful links and projects across
generations through the transmission of knowledge, skills, values and
job opportunities, in particular the transformation of the patrimonial
value of work experience. 3) The meanings and consequences of
technological change for the work and livelihood of industrial workers."
Prof. Susana Narotzky
Dept. Antropologia Cultural, Història d'Amèrica i Àfrica Facultat de
Geografia i Història Universitat de Barcelona
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