Global capitalism is not what it used to be. The
return of sweatshops, "branding," Wal-Mart, and out-of-season cherries
points to the reorganization of global supply chains around self-consciously cultural mobilizations of labor and capital.
Monolithic theories of capitalism are not enough to understand this
situation. This talk offers a feminist theory of global capitalism in
which subcontracting and allied forms configure and link newly
segregated economic niches.
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent book, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
(2005), offers a theory of transnationalism through an exploration of
environmental crisis in Indonesia. She is currently involved in
collaborative research on the global commodity chain and the
transnational scientific network surrounding Pacific Rim forest
foraging for a Japanese gourmet mushroom called matsutake.
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