Two Poems

Poetry by Dale Tracy

Polanyian meditations on economy and society: a review of ‘Market Society: The Great Transformation Today’

When one considers anthropology’s recent encounter with ‘globalisation’ -- whether understood as a “totalizing” discourse (Tsing 2000), as the dialectical antinomy of localization, as expanding constellations of diasporas and transnational social spaces” (Basch, Glick-Schiller & Szanton 1994), or as webs of legal and illegal trade (Nordstrom 2007) -- it can be profitable to recall the precursors. By this I mean anthropologists who consistently brought a historical-theoretical concern with global processes to bear upon local ethnography, and vice versa. Those that are name-checked in this connection tend to include Marxian theorists such as Eric Wolf, Michael Taussig, Sidney Mintz, and Maurice Godelier, but another important figure was Karl Polanyi

CaseMap issue linking in UK civil proceedings

There is an increasing focus in UK litigation on early identification of the issues between the parties in the form of a Court-approved List of Issues on which all other stages from pleadings through to trial must rely, and on which the facts, the documents and every other element of the case must be hung. CaseMap is a well-established software application owned by LexisNexis whose primary function is to facilitate the identification of the key components in a case – the facts, people, documents etc – and to help make sense of how these interact with the issues and other elements of the case. This paper explores briefly how the functionality of CaseMap matches the issues-based focus of the UK courts at all levels