London Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, Spring Term 2017
Thursday 2 February - William Tantam, ILAS.
Sonya's Place in the World: Spatial Negotiations of Class and Gender among Higglers in Jamaica
This presentation looks at spatial negotiations of class and gender in a small rural town in Jamaica. It examines how socioeconomic hierarchies are produced spatially, and specifically attends to how female market traders, or 'higglers,' experience their marginalisation as working-class women. I will explore the ways in which these women produce areas in which they can operate outside of formal and state institutions and locate the relationship between space, women, and the state within a wider historical perspective which traces the antagonism between higglers and the state in Jamaica to the plantation system in which female market traders first emerged. This presentation looks at the ethnography of a young higgler, Sonya, and how she locates herself within multiple, overlapping spatial levels. The paper points towards the everyday negotiations of space through which Shana experiences her place in the world, and uses such negotiations as a lens onto the contemporary Jamaican state.
The seminar will take place at 17:30 at Senate House (Room 234, South Block, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).
This seminar series is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths and UCL.
For more information about the seminar, you can visit our blog:http://anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk<http://anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk/>
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