Dear colleagues,

 

A quick reminder about Wednesday’s seminar “Economics of Political Chaos” that will kick-off the Radical Spotlight Series, a collaboration of the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) in the AAA and the Network Anthropology of Economy in the EASA.

 

Inaugural Seminar: Economics of Political Chaos

March 6th, 2024 7-8.30 pm CET

https://unisg.zoom.us/j/68183574287?pwd=eGM1ZGt2NS8xUnlndFlaYndscUxQQT09

 

Theme

States and institutions do not always stabilize capitalist markets. States can instead be agents of chaos. Current far-right or fascist politics show how attempts at top-down transformations do not go smoothly. In this inaugural seminar to the Radical Spotlights Series, anthropologists explore the implications of disorderly politics on everyday economics.

How do people navigate state-induced disorder in production, trade, and consumption? How do Kafkaesque laws threaten or create business opportunities? In which ways do discriminatory political economies yield unintended consequences, and chaotic politics shape people’s economic outlooks? What do we gain by putting political chaos centre stage in the study of everyday economics?

 

Speakers

Caroline E. Schuster

Associate Professor Australian National University, Australia.

Love in the time of El Niño: towards a politics of radical forecasts

 

Kanchana N Ruwanpura

Professor – Development Geography, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Revisiting Militarized Capitalism: Labouring for global garments in debt-ridden Sri Lanka

 

Douglas R. Holmes

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,  State University of New York, Binghamton, United States.

Money Troubles: Fascism and the Discontents of Finance

 

Organization

Andreas Streinzer, University of St. Gallen and Institute for Social Research Frankfurt and Erik Bähre, Leiden University

 

Thanks to the “Moralizations of Inequality” project at the University of St. Gallen for the financial support to the seminar.

 

Andreas and Erik

 

 

Dr. Andreas Streinzer

 

 

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