1st Edition

Confronting Capital Critique and Engagement in Anthropology

Edited By Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach, Winnie Lem Copyright 2012
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital, politically engaged form of scholarship. It advances the understanding of the struggles of ordinary people in the face of capitalist change. In the current economic moment when such changes are tumultuous and the instabilities of capitalism are starkly revealed, this book... Read more

1. Introduction: Confronting Anthropology: The Critical Enquiry of Capitalism  Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach and Winnie Lem  Part I: Politics  2. Making Connections: The Politics of Intellectual Labor in Colombia  Leslie Gill  3. Security Anthropology and Northern Morazán, El Salvador: Confronting the Present There and Elsewhere  Leigh Binford  4. Effective Politics: Band Elections and Decision Making in a Northern Onario Anishnaabek Community  Krystyna Sieciechowicz  5. The Soviet Revenge: How the Unrecognized Soviet-Style Mechanisms of Contemporary Finance Capitalism Cause Social Crisis and Catastrophe in the West  Don Kalb and Oane Visser  Part II: Histories  6. To Die in the Silence of History: Tuberculosis Epidemics and Yup’ik Peoples of Southwestern Alaska  Linda Green  7. Not the Same Old Stories: Labor Anthropology, Vulnerabilities and Solidarity Struggles  Belinda Leach  8. Native Livelihoods and Capital Punishment in the Carolinas and Labrador  Gerald Sider  9. "They Say We Aren’t From Around Here": The Production of Culture Among a Displaced People  Gastón Gordillo  Part III: Livelihoods  10. Global Connections and Disconnections: Space and Labour in Mumbai’s Slums  Judith Whitehead  11. Ghostly Figures Outside the Domain of Political Economy: Class Analysis and the Invisiblized Livelihoods of an Andean Export Zone  Christopher Krupa  12. Humanitarian to Livelihood Approaches: A View from the Dadaab Refugee Camps in Kenya  Wenona Giles  13. Gender Mainstreaming and Market Fundamentalism in Rural Yucatán, Mexico  Marie France Labrecque  14. Alternatives to Expanded Accumulation and the Anthropological Imagination: Turning Necessity into a Challenge to Capitalism?  Susana Narotzky  15. Afterword: In Defence of Historical Realist Anthropology  Gavin Smith

Biography

Pauline Gardiner Barber is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Dalhousie University in Canada.

Winnie Lem is Professor of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada. 

Belinda Leach is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.