Workshop on Political Economy: Labour, Capital and the State

Barcelona, 9-11 March 2015: Workshop on “Political Economy: Labour, Capital and the State”, Organized by GRECO (Narotzky & Palomera) University of Barcelona, Barcelona.

Invited Scholars:
Professor Jane L. Collins (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Professor Sharryn M. Kasmir (Hofstra University, New York)
Professor Tania M. Li (University of Toronto)

Monday 9th March
Challenges to economic citizenship:
Welfare, work and the enclosure of public commons

  • 09:45-10:00. Susana Narotzky: Welcome and opening words on the GRECO ERC Project and the workshop
  • 10:00-11:30. Jane Collins: Economic Citizenship in an Era of Globalization [Chair: Susana Narotzky]
  • 12:00-13:30. Debate on “Theorizing Wisconsin’s 2011 Protests: Community-Based Unionism Confronts Accumulation by Dispossession”, author Jane Collins; discussant Tania Li  [Chair: Jaime Palomera]
  • 16:00-18:00. Think piece presentations: Carmen Leidereiter, Giacomo Loperfido, Jaime Palomera [Chair: Olga Lafazani]

Tuesday 10th March
Work, care and surplus populations

  • 10:00-11:30. Tania Li: Truncated transitions and not-so-great transformations: work and care in rural Indonesia [Chair: Giacomo Loperfido]
  • 12:00-13:30. Debate on “To make live or let die? Rural dispossession and the protection of surplus populations”, author Tania Li; discussant Sharryn Kasmir [Chair: Patricia Matos]
  • 16:00-18:00. Think piece presentations: Diana Sarkis, Antonio Pusceddu, Stamatis Amarianakis [Chair: Susana Narotzky]

Wednesday 11th March
Class formations in the 21st century:
Towards a global anthropology of labor

  • 10:00-11:30. Sharryn Kasmir: The Poorest City in the United States: The Anthropology of Labor of Reading, Pennsylvania  [Chair: Theodora Vetta]
  • 12:00-13:30. Debate on “Introduction: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor”, author Sharryn Kasmir; discussant Jane Collins [Chair: Antonio Pusceddu]
  • 16:00-18:00. Think piece presentations: Patricia Matos, Olga Lafazani, Theodora Vetta [Chair: Diana Sarkis]
  • 18:00-18:30. Concluding remarks. [Chair: Susana Narotzky]