Date and time: Tuesday 13 September 2022; 13:15-15:00 (UTC+2)

Teacher: Maris Gillette

Location: Room 204 (Annedalseminariet) or zoom

Slides

Capitalist and neoliberal ideologies, institutions, and practices sbape social life around the world, yet their hegemony is incomplete. After a few reflections on how anthropologists study neoliberal capitalism and market economies, we turn to a range of "alternatives," including non-capitalist measures of “progress” or “development” which draw on anthropological theory and research, such as degrowth and wellbeing, as well as the everyday experiences and cosmologies that mitigate, modify, accelerate or resist the effects of capitalist and neoliberalist forces.

Required reading:
Group A	Appel, Hannah (2017) “Toward an Ethnography of the National Economy.” Cultural Anthropology 32(2): 294–322.
Group B	Verma, Ritu (2017) “Gross National Happiness: Meaning, Measure and Degrowth in a Living Development Alternative.” Journal of Political Ecology 24(1). No page numbers
All	Okura Gagné, Nana (2020) “Neoliberalism at Work: Corporate Reforms, Subjectivity, and Post- Toyotist Affect in Japan.” Anthropological Theory 20 (4): 455–83.

Suggested additional reading

Gillette, Maris Boyd, and Viktor Vesterberg. 2022. “Dead in the Water? Sustainability and Direct Seafood Sales in Sweden.” Journal of Rural Studies 89 (January): 248–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.12.004.

Kallis, Giorgos. 2018. “What is degrowth?” In Degrowth. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 1-13.

Polanyi, Karl. 2001 [1944]. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press.