How is culture embedded in social process? Can we understand change in our foci of collective meaning production in relation to transformations of property regimes and social relations? And is there a social logic behind the phenomenon of defetishisation of environments that the expansion of [...]
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In Gran Sabana, southern Venezuela, an ongoing process of enclosure is generating social transformations comparable to the ones associated with primitive accumulation: this process leads to the transformation of land into capital and accentuates the conditions that have for decades spurred [...]
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Some two years ago I was invited to contribute to a volume on Latin American Extractivism that Steve Ellner has edited and is about to come out. In my contribution I set to explain why resource nationalism receives mass support as the engine of development projects in Latin American [...]
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Department of Anthropology Symposium, University of Sydney
Theme and goals
In the present period of political instability and uncertainty, symbols of community and faction have regained public presence as tools for political manoeuvring and mobilisation. This is very noticeable [...]
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It might be only a matter of definitions; but it is probably about something else too.
How come that there was such a widespread consensus around the idea that the so-called Pink Tide in Latin America was already a thing of the past by 2015 and more so that it had actually [...]
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In January 2016, Henry Ramos Allup, president of the then newly installed Venezuelan parliament, hastened to make a demonstration of institutional power. The opposition bloc had obtained a strong victory in the legislative elections of 2015, and the veteran political leader of Acción [...]
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Over the past few days, chavista leaders have been publicly boasting that 2016 has been a year of political victories. Convinced that the opposition has run out of short-term options to oust Maduro, high-ranking officials explicitly highlighted three fronts where the government had [...]
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Anthropologies of Value: Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South
Book Launch
DATE: Thursday 27 October
TIME: 3:00pm to 6:00pm
LOCATION: Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building, Manning Rd, University of Sydney, [...]
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