Dear all
,
We invite proposals for our panel "Marx @200: Historical Materialism for
Today's World", sponsored by the IUAES Commission on Global Transformations
and Marxian Anthropology, with Don Kalb and Ida Susser as respondents, to
be presented at EASA's Biannual Conference 'Staying, Moving, Settling' in
Stockholm, Sweden, August
14-17.
2018. The deadline for submissions is April 9.
To propose a paper please go to:
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6463
Short abstract
The panel takes the occasion of Karl Marx's 200th birth anniversary to
revisit and expand Marxian anthropology. It will link the local and the
global with a focus on the grounded dynamics of class struggle, value
formation, financialization and anti-systemic movements.
Long abstract
The 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx is an ideal opportunity to revisit
and expand the long tradition of Marxist anthropology. In the 1960s-1980s,
the French "modes of production school" as well as Anglophone
anthropologists like Peter Worsley, Sidney Mintz and Eric Wolf, witnessing
the revolutionary movements rocking the Third World and urban
agglomerations in the western capitalist heartlands, adapted the Marxian
tool-kit to make ethnographically grounded interventions and criticisms.
While their main concern was with social formations before and at the
margins of capitalism, the global crises of the late 1990s and escalating
ever since, have provoked a new generation of anthropologists to draw on
Marxian theory for uncovering forms of domination and injustice specific to
contemporary capitalism in both core and peripheral economies.
This panel invites presentations that advance these approaches. Through
fieldwork-based analyses informed by a close reading of Marx's oeuvre, the
papers in this panel will bridge structural and ideational aspects of
everyday life, draw attention to the marginal and peripheral, and link
phenomena at various scales from local to global, to track the dynamics of
class struggle, accumulation and exploitation, value formation and
destruction, financialization and anti-systemic movements. Papers should
aim to advance the scope and scale of Marxian anthropology to reveal how
people in a variety of settings and social positions think and act within
the constraints of contemporary capitalism and how these thoughts and
practices reproduce or challenge these constraints; stimulating our
capacity to imagine life beyond capitalism.
Best wishes,
Patrick Neveling and Hadas Weiss
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