Rethinking Economic Anthropology: a human centred approach. Papers & Schedule
Friday 11th January 2008
Venue : Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome (Catherine Alexander) 09:45-10:45 Keynote lecture
Keith Hart : The Human Economy
Chair: Catherine Alexander
– 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break – 11:15-13:00 Plenary 1 : Ethnography of capitalism at the core
Chair: Jonathan Parry
Kalman Applbaum
Where Demand Meets Supply: Comorbidity and Channel Stabilization in the Creation of a Psychopharmaceutical Blockbuster
Hirokazu Miyazaki
The Temporality of No Hope
Sandy Robertson
Trust us – we’re anthropologists
Caitlin Zaloom
Economy in the Brain: Gifts and the Compromise of Medical Reason
Discussant: Marianne E. Lien
– 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch – 14:00-15:45 Plenary 2 : Political economy of peripheral areas
Chair: Stephen Gudeman
Fairtrade and its implications
Jane Guyer
Cash Economies
Barbara Harriss-White
Informal Capitalism: Social Order, Agency And Deviance (Five comments on Europe and India and their implications for anthropological research on the economy)
Janet Roitman
The Anti-Crisis
Discussant: Stephan Feuchtwang
– 15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break – 16:15-18:15 Plenary 3 : Alternative Economies
Chair: Deborah James
Stefan Ecks
What is “Global Corporate Citizenship”? A View from the Indian Pharmaceuticals Market
Jean-Louis Laville
Towards a theory of plural economy: in the footsteps of Mauss and Polanyi
Bill Maurer
Re-socialising Finance? Or Dressing it in Mufti? Calculating Alternatives for Cultural Economies
Richard Wilk
The strange economics of happiness
Discussant: David Graeber
Saturday 12th January
Venue: Clement House, LSE, Aldwych
Presented as two groups consisting of 3 parallel workshop sessions each 09:15-10:45 Workshops Group I (3 parallel sessions) Workshop 1: Calculability and Gambling
Venue: Room 302
Chair: Kalman Applbaum
Rebecca Cassidy
Getting lucky: the changing face of betting shops in Britain
Ilana van Wyk
Gambling on God in post-apartheid South Africa: money and sacrifice in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
Hans Steinmuller
The Moving Boundaries of Social Heat: Gambling in rural China
Discussant / rapporteur: Caitlin Zaloom
Workshop 2: Debt
Venue : Room 311
Chair: Barbara Harriss-White
Evan Killick
Good Debt and Bad Credit: A Cross-Cultural Consideration of Debt
Gustav Peebles
Alienated Futures, Alienated Money: The Nationalization of Hoarding and Its Implications
Nicolas Martin
Class Formation and the Political Economy of Bonded Labour in the Pakistani Punjab
Discussant/rapporteur: Janet Roitman
Workshop 3: Concepts, Methods, Objects 1
Venue: Room 306
Chair: Richard Wilk
Nicolas Ellison
Towards an anthropology of ‘economic practices’: perspectives on the ‘market nexus’ from the Totonac periphery (Mexico)
Alice Bryer
Beyond Bureaucracies? The Struggle for Self-Determination and Social Responsibility in the Argentine Worker-Run Companies
Dinah Rajak
‘Uplift and Empower’: Discourses of Responsibility in a Transnational Mining Corporation
Geert de Neve
From CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) to CSR (Corporate Social Regimes): the politics of ethical compliance in the South Indian garment industry
Discussant: Ravi Raman Rapporteur: Hirokazu Miyazaki
– 10:45-11:15 Coffee Break Room D402 – 11:15-13:00 Workshops Group II (3 parallel sessions) Workshop 4: Calculability, Reciprocity and Ethics
Venue: Room 311
Chair: Sandy Robertson
Antina von Schnitzler
Measuring Life: Technology, the life and the Production of Calculability in Soweto
Gregers Petersen
Circulating property. Free software as inalienable object and the reality of giving while-keeping
Andres Dapuez
Turbulences of the Present
Helen Busby
The contested values, promises and ethics of commercial cord blood banking in the UK
Discussant: Erik Baehre Rapporteur: Stephen Gudeman
Workshop 5: Labour
Venue: Room 302
Chair: Jonathan Parry
Elisabetta Basile
From Green Revolution to Industrial Dispersal: Informality and flexibility in an industrial district for silk in rural South India
Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga,
Between money and soul: work, self and Soviet/Russian culturedness in a newly privatized global factory
Jaron Rowan
Notions of work under a regime of mass innovation
Discussant/rapporteur: Massimiliano Mollona
Workshop 6: Concepts, Methods, Objects II
Venue: Room 306
Chair: Catherine Alexander
Jose Ossandon
Property and the collective in Chile’s private health insurance
Horacio Ortiz
Everyday investment in Asset Backed Securities: an anthropology of
Kate Meagher
Informality Matters: Popular Economic Governance and Institutional Exclusion in Nigeria
Koray Caliskan & Michel Callon
Economization:New Directions in the Social Studies of the Market
Discussant/rapporteur: Bill Maurer
– 13:00-14:30 Lunch – 14:30-16:00 Discussants’ report, discussion and consolidation
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Aldwych
Chair: Jane Guyer
Rapporteurs: Caitlin Zaloom, Janet Roitman, Bill Maurer, Stephen Gudeman, Massimiliano Mollona, Hirokazu Miyazaki 16:00-16:30 Wrap-up: Rethinking Economic Anthropology
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Aldwych
- Marianne E. Lien