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Re-Appropriating World Market Production:
Commodity Chains in the Project of Postcolonial Development (1920-2000)
International Workshop
Venue: University of Berne/Switzerland
Date: 18th – 19th June 2009
This workshop has been organised by the Historical Institute
and the Institute for Social Anthropology at Berne University (Switzerland)
in collaboration with the Commodities of Empire Project.
A perspective that explicitly focuses on post-colonial nation-states
and looks at how commodity chains were established within competing projects
of development and modernisation after World War II can shed new light
on world economic developments happening from the 1980s onward. This workshop
aims to bring together papers which look at the emergence of neo-liberal
and structural adjustment policies from a wider perspective and thus question
periodisations of globalisation and the often core-centred approaches
to macro-scale developments. Because this perspective has the potential
to show that events in the so-called peripheries actually triggered the
slow-down of the growth of capitalism and the spectacular growth of finance
capitalism in the West from the 1980s onward, it is important to take
the postcolonial re-appropriation of world market production in the respective
nation-states as a first empirical consideration.
The aim of this workshop is thus to compare different projects
of postcolonial development, their origins and their trajectories in a
comparative perspective that focuses on a single commodity central to
the respective nation-state's ideology of development.
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Power and Resistance within Commodity Chains, 1800-2000
Third Annual International Workshop of the Commodities of Empire Project
Venue: Open University Camden Town, London
Date: 29 June 2009
For details please see the call for papers in the 'News'
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| Power and Resistance within Commodity Chains, 1800-2000
Third Annual International Workshop of the Commodities of Empire
Project
Venue: Open University Camden Town, London
Date: 29 June 2009
The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies
(Open University) and the Caribbean Studies Centre (London Metropolitan
University) are jointly organising the third annual international
workshop of the Commodities of Empire project.
The serious financial crisis in which the world finds
itself today is a contemporary manifestation of a global commodity
system which has been built up over time and is the project’s
object of analysis. This year’s workshop aims to explore further
these historical antecedents and contribute particularly to the
growing research interest in the concept of the ‘commodity
chain’, understood as a transnational network of processes
(i.e. extending beyond the local but not necessarily ‘global’
in scope) that moves a product along different stages from production
to consumption. In particular, it will aim to explore: first the
different power positions among actors involved in the chain (producers,
traders, transporters, consumers) paying particular attention to
the significance of prevailing economic and political regimes; and
second, the various modes and strategies of local resistance to
the attempted imposition of export-oriented commodities by colonial
and/or foreign interests.
For more details please see the call for papers below.
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