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CALL FOR PAPERS, ASA 2014, EDINBURGH
Thank you for taking a look at the details of the following panel.
A world of goods and the wealth of nations: anthropologies of export
This panel uses export's historical significance in the expansion of
nation states as a starting point for exploring both labour in export
industries and the export of labour, the materiality of exported
goods, and where an anthropology of export might sit in relation to
work on globalization.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2701
Long Abstract
Exportation is generally understood as the process of dispatching
goods or services to another country in return for payment. That
export might also evoke the transmission of ideas, practices, and
authority signals its historical significance that pre-dates ¬- but
also helped to develop - the nation state. The export of tobacco, fur,
silk, and tea are not only linked to the growth of cities, banks,
mercantile classes, and colonial power; in some cases, they
constituted them (Yanagisako 2010; Sleeper-Smith 2000). Export also
provides a lens onto shifting labour practices, from the trade of
'military man-power' (Wolf 1972) to outsourcing and anxieties about
'brain drain'.
This panel seeks a diverse set of papers reflecting the ubiquity of
export in an era of globalized goods and labour and the connections
between histories of export and contemporary global and domestic class
structures (Roseberry 2007). What are the lived experiences of those
who make products to be sold internationally or who scope
international markets for entrepreneurial opportunities? What parts do
laws and ethics play in export, from 'free trade' agreements to the
rise of 'fair trade'? Some panelists might unpack the material and/or
symbolic resonances of exported 'things', inspired by granular
accounts of, for example, different cuts of meat from a single animal
being dispatched to different places (Gewertz and Errington 2010).
Should an anthropology of export be embedded within work on
globalization or does it give a contrasting/ conflictual view of the
intersections of place and space with economic practices?
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Thanks again and best wishes,
Siobhan Magee
University of Edinburgh
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