38 research outputs found
Pecunia non olet but does rose money smell?: on rose oil prices and moral economy in Isparta, Turkey
Power and the durability of poverty: a critical exploration of the links between culture, marginality and chronic poverty
Market, morality and (just) price: the case of recycling economy in Turkey
By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted amongst waste-pickers and recycling traders in the waste paper, plastic and scrap metal sectors, and engaging with literature from economic anthropology and history, as well as archival sources, this paper documents changing perceptions of just price, morality and fairness in the Turkish recycling market. The paper suggests that multiple markets imply multiple prices, which are contingent and contested. When dealing with price mechanisms largely outside their control, actors tend to associate a fair price with the going market price, rather than factors such as state regulation. Approaches to morality and assessments of fairness become more ambiguous when prices are mediated by actors? own practices. These range from gift relations to paternalism, envy and deception
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Retooling anthropology: A response to Hart/Ortiz and Gudeman (AT24[6])
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Retooling anthropology: A response to Hart/Ortiz and Gudeman (AT24[6])
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Botanical decolonization: Rethinking native plants
In this paper we use an apparently marginal topic-'native plants'-to address two issues of concern to contemporary politics and political theory: the legacy of settler colonialism, and dilemmas of scholarship and activism in the 'Anthropocene'. Drawing on the writings of Francis Bacon and based on a case study of California, we argue that planting and displanting humans and plants are elements of the same multispecies colonial endeavor. In contrast to those who equate native plant advocates with anti-immigrant nativism, we see native plant advocacy as part of a broad process of botanical decolonization and a strategic location for ethical action in the Anthropocene. © 2014 Pion and its Licensors