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*London Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, Spring Term 2017*
Thursday 2nd of March – Jonathan Newsman, Sussex University.
Narratives of Terror, Coffee Farming and Ethical Trade in Colombia
Ethical trading schemes, like Fairtrade, tell stories of production that offer a double fantasy about coffee: our consumption of an inanimate object transfigures the lives of producers, delivering them from an uncertain, less radiant future, while the same farmers celebrate the magic of coffee that liberates them from globalised subjugation. Meanwhile, in the nations of coffee production, rates of homicide and other acts of violence are some of the highest in the world.
The anthropological canon also has a divergence between narratives about coffee production and narratives about violence. Seminal ethnographic studies that took place in Colombia during the 1980s appear to describe farming and terror as incompatible worlds. The talk examines the relationship between farming and violence in Colombia in order to explicate these two themes of ethical trading and the formation of anthropological silos. Comparisons between the two systems of knowledge production exposes conceptual and methodological questions that briefly take us through ideas on inter-sectionality, affect, performance and that ontological turn. The discussion reveals an unnecessary gulf between anthropologies of violence and economy that is reflected in the tales, and analysis, of ethical trading.
Behind these contrasting narratives are practices of representing conflict or production in far away lands. The talk concludes by reflecting on the location of knowledge publication, or performance, and questions the extent that this location is formative of a persistent narrative disjuncture between violence and economy.
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.
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