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2-0750 CAPITALISM AND GLOBAL ANTHROPOLOGY: MARXISM RESURGENT
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-21:45

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Organizers:  Patrick Neveling (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Luisa J Steur (SOAS)
Chairs:  Terence S Turner (University of Chicago and CORNELL University) and Belinda Leach (University of Guelph)
Discussants:  Neil Smith (Graduate Center, CUNY)
18:00
Bare life, labor-power, mobility, and global space: Toward a Marxian anthropology?
Nicholas P De Genova (Goldsmiths, University of London)
18:15
African migrants in "the kingdom of bling": Experiences of a disenfranchised labor force in neoliberal Dubai
Michaela P. Pelican (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
18:30
Discussion
18:45
Ethnographic engagements with the crisis of capitalism, the Marxist Left, and the reclaiming of politics in Romania
Florin Andrei Poenaru (Central European University)
19:00
Historical waves of dispossession in Western Orissa (India): An ethnographic critique of Harvey’s “dual domains” of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle
Christian Strümpell (South Asia Institute)
19:15
The production of space and energy: Conflicts around land and memory in Southern Catalonia (Spain)
Jaume Franquesa (SUNY)
19:30
Discussion
19:45
Break
20:00
Blankets, Overaccumulation and "spatio-temporal fixes" in longue durée perspective: The 19th century Kwakiutl Potlatch vs. the 1948 outsourcing of New Hampshire's cotton mills to the world's first Export Processing Zone
Patrick Neveling (University of Bern, Switzerland)
20:15
Urban restructuring and the (re)production of marginality in post-Communist Romania
Aniko Viola Horvath (Central European University)
20:30
Reforming the development dictatorship: Ideas of globalization and the disciplining of labor in South Korea
George Baca (Dong-A University/John Jay College)
20:45
Discussant
Neil Smith (Graduate Center, CUNY)
21:00
Discussion
21:15
Discussion
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