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Dear colleagues,
we want to draw your attention to our panel on "Infrastructures of
Value" at EASA 2020 in Lisbon:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8688
Short Abstract:
Value has often been discussed with examples from agriculture. On this
old terrain, this panel opens new views on valuation through the lens of
infrastructure. This directs attention to material creations of
uniqueness and genericness and challenges persistent binaries in
economic anthropology.
Convenors:
Christof Lammer (Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt)
André Thiemann (Riga Stradiņš University)
Discussant:
Edward F. Fischer (Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee)
Long Abstract:
Much has been written about value, and its source has been hotly
debated. In this panel we attempt to open new views on valuation
practices through the lens of infrastructure. This allows us to connect
partitioned anthropological approaches that focus either on production
(Marxian), exchange (substantivist), or consumption (Simmel-inspired).
We deploy the new lens - 'infrastructures of value' - on old terrain:
Value has often been discussed by scholars with examples taken from
agriculture. Land was thought to be 'the source of all wealth' by
physiocrats like Henry George. A vineyard with 'special properties' was
used by Karl Marx to explain 'monopoly price'. Fine wine was also taken
up by Lucien Karpik in the 21st century to understand 'economics of
singularities,' thereby re-introducing the binary between unique and
generic. This persistent binary relates to often claimed ruptures,
differences and splits in economic anthropology: artisan versus
industrial production, gift versus commodity exchange, capitalism versus
socialism, civil society versus state, community versus market. The lens
of infrastructure challenges these dichotomies by directing attention to
practices of creating (and destroying) both uniqueness and genericness
of agricultural matter (e.g. land, yeasts, organic rice, natural wine,
berries, olive oil, quality coffee). We welcome contributions that
examine how infrastructures broadly defined (ranging from transportation
to information and financial infrastructures, from wires, pipes and
bottles to labels and people) shape valuation processes in agri-food
chains. We thus turn attention to the irreducible materiality of
valuation as food, people and ideas move through space and time.
We welcome your submissions. The call is open until 20 January 2020.
Best wishes,
Christof and André
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Dr Christof Lammer
Department of Science, Technology and Society Studies
Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt
Address: Lakesidepark B07b (Room B07.1.203), 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
Phone: +43 463 2700 6157
Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Website: https://www.aau.at/en/team/lammer-christof
* * * recent publication * * *
(2018) Distancing the regulating state: corruption, transparency, and
the puzzle of personal relatedness in a food network in Sichuan
<https://www.academia.edu/38484515/Distancing_the_regulating_state_corruption_transparency_and_the_puzzle_of_personal_relatedness_in_a_food_network_in_Sichuan>.
/Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic
Development/ 47(3,4): 369-406.
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