Call for Papers EASA 2016 Milan
P117 'Just Prices: Moral Economic Legacies and New Struggles over Value'
Convenors
Giovanni Orlando (University of Turin)
Peter Luetchford (Sussex University)
Short Abstract
This panel explores the just price ethnographically and analytically.
Despite engaging with issues central to anthropology, such as markets,
moralities, and money, there has been little direct focus on the just
price. The panel seeks to unpack neoliberal discourses on prices, and the
alternatives.
Long Abstract
Despite engaging with issues that have been central to anthropology since
the times of Mauss and Malinowski, the notion of the just price has been
little explored in the discipline either analytically or empirically.
Rather, it has tended to be subsumed within wider discussions about value
and moral economy. This contrasts with a long tradition of thought on the
problem in philosophy, economics and theology. In this panel we seek to
explore the just price ethnographically, primarily in relation to food. How
do people define or contest a fair price, as producers or consumers? Are
these categories of people useful in formulating a just price, and can
different interests be reconciled? Is food the primary concern in
discussions about fair prices, and if so, why? Can the concept be extended
to other areas of exchange, such as labour, and what are the implications
of this? We are interested in contributions that try to answer these
questions from geographical locales both in the South and the North. While
we wish to explore these issues through empirical examples, contributors
may choose to refer to wider theoretical debates, such as the concepts of
use value and exchange value (or other forms of value theory), ideas about
quantity and quality, or anthropological theories of money and monetary
exchange. By focusing on the just price, this panel aims to demystify
ideologies of price-setting markets as the best route to development, and
explore social/moral alternatives to them in an effort to better our common
human future.
To propose a paper follow this link:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4154
Deadline: TOMORROW (15 February 2016)
Giovanni Orlando (PhD Goldsmiths, MSc UCL)
https://unito.academia.edu/GiovanniOrlando
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