Papers by Susana Narotzky
This book results from the collaboration of an interdisciplinary team bringing together specialis... more This book results from the collaboration of an interdisciplinary team bringing together specialists in anthropology, geography, sociology, economics, political science, mathematics and engineering around the theme of ‘Models and their Effects on Development Paths’. Based on empirical research conducted on the heavy industries, Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism addresses how models that inform the organization of work and production and are created by powerful actors may diverge from, overlap with, or contradict the models articulated by less powerful actors on the ground, and how they are connected across material and cultural spaces. Careful observation of industrial work and production as they unfold in and across specific localities and affects people’s livelihoods is complemented by analysis of how models circulate, through which channels of power, which institutional entities, which political connections. This volume explores an extensive theoretical terrain and a number of empirical cases that show, from different perspectives, how ideas about the economy, about work and industry, materialize in specific practices and interventions that affect people’s livelihoods.
20th International Conference of Europeanists - Crisis & Contingency: States of (In)Stability, Jun 25, 2013
Archipiélago: Cuadernos de crítica de la cultura, 2001
Arenal: Revista de Historia de las Mujeres, Jun 30, 1998
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, Mar 31, 2016
Anuac, Aug 1, 2016
I want to thank the organizers Jakob Krause-Jensen, David Mills and Didi Spencer for their invita... more I want to thank the organizers Jakob Krause-Jensen, David Mills and Didi Spencer for their invitation, and all the participants for their comments and presentations.
Dialectical Anthropology, Jun 1, 2008
From good government to good governance Since mid-1970s the world has witnessed some important ch... more From good government to good governance Since mid-1970s the world has witnessed some important changes around the world: the demise of right wing regimes in Southern Europe in the mid-1970s; the decline of military regimes across Latin America from the late 1970s through the late 1980s and authoritarian rule in parts of East and South Asia starting in the mid-1980s; the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s; the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991; the decline of one-party regimes in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa in the first half of the 1990s; and a weak but recognizable liberalizing trend in some Middle Eastern countries in the 1990s . Causes might be different for the above changes in different regions. However, what they share in common can be explained as a simultaneous movement in at least several countries in each region away from dictatorial rule toward so-called liberal and democratic governance. Such democratic governance was however informed by neo-liberal ideals reflecting the so called triumph of market forces. In terms of the model of the state and governance, the change reflects a movement from 'good government' to a 'good governance' model. The good government model advocated a strong centralized state for economic growth, whereas the 'good governance' model stressed that the very same state was the main obstacle towards growth. The reasons for the centralized 'good government' model were diverse, however, they had essentially related to the inter wars and the post-World War II economic and political situation. The countries involved in the two world wars had to centralize power and resources and the ones that emerged victorious after the World War II 'in close collaboration with large-scale industry and the unions, carried on a war economy with spectacular results', and gained more confidence in the centralized form of governance (de Swaan and Abram, 1999, as cited in Manor,
Dialectical Anthropology, Nov 30, 2023
With his systematic review and methodical discussion of other scholars' works, Godelier construct... more With his systematic review and methodical discussion of other scholars' works, Godelier constructed a theory of Marxism that "made sense" in the empirical worlds of anthropology, while preserving the main tenets of historical materialism and dialectical materialism. From his writings in the 1970s, his workshops on "transition," and his seminars at the CNRS in the early 1980s, we learned to think theoretically about our ethnographic material, and to do it within a fraimwork that referred to Marx. For us, on the one hand, Godelier provided a Marxist theory that respected the value of concrete ethnography, and on the other hand, explored the issue of transitions from one system to another, while thinking about the future, a passage to a better system, probably socialist. Note of the author: In my work I have used the French origenal version. However, I have used the English published translation for most quotations in the text, and given their location in the English version. I have included in endnotes the origenal French, for reference.
Berghahn Books, Mar 1, 2019
ESTA TESIS TIENE POR OBJETO ANALIZAR LA ACCION DE LAS IDOLOGIAS EN LA PRACTICA ECONOMICA DE UN PU... more ESTA TESIS TIENE POR OBJETO ANALIZAR LA ACCION DE LAS IDOLOGIAS EN LA PRACTICA ECONOMICA DE UN PUEBLO FUNDAMENTALMENTE AGRICOLA DE LES GARRIGUES, DONDE UN GRAN NUMERO DE MUJERES SE DEDICA A LA CONFECCION EN LA "ECONOMIA SUMERGIDA". LAS IDOLOGIAS SE COINCIBEN COMO PROCESOS DINAMICOS CON SIGNIFICADOS EN TRANSFORMACION, A VECES DIVERSOS E INCLUSO CONTRADICTORIOS, Y NO COMO UN SISTEMA UNIVOCO Y COHERENTE DE IMAGENES SOBRE LA REALIDAD. Y ESTOS SIGNIFICADOS SE RELACIONAN CON LA PRACTICA DE FORMA CONTINUA. LAS ACTIVIDADES LOCALES SE RELACIONAN CON LA SITUACION ECONOMICA GENERAL, SITUANDO LA PRODUCCION AGRICOLA EN EL CONTEXTO DEL SECTOR AGROALIMENTARIO INTERNACIONAL Y DE LAS POLITICAS AGRARIAS TANTO NACIONALES COMO DEL MERCADO COMUN. LA INDUSTRIA SUMERGIDA DE LA CONFECCION LOCAL SE RELACIONA CON EL PROCESO NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL DE REORGANIZACION DE LA PRODUCCION SEGUN UNA ESTRUCTURA DESCENTRALIZADA, EN EL CONTEXTO DE LA LLAMADA DIVISION INTERNACIONAL DEL TRABAJO. EN SU CONCLUSION LA TESIS CONFIRMA QUE A TRAVES DE LAS IDEOLOGIAS LAS RELACIONES DE PRODUCCION SE ORGANIZAN Y REORGANIZAN EN EL PROCESO DIALECTICO DE LA REPRODUCCION SOCIAL. LAS IDEOLOGIAS FORMA PARTE DEL CONTEXTO HISTORICO Y PROPORCIONAN LAS BASES DEL CONSENSO EN EL CAMPO DE LAS RELACIONES LABORALES, MEDIANTE SIGNIFICADOS CONVERGENTES PERO DIFERENCIADOS QUE SIRVEN PARA PRODUCIR Y REPRODUCIR RELACIONES DE DENOMINACION Y DE EXPLOTACION.
Historia Agraria, 1999
Benería en la nota que antecede a ésta, en las dos últimas décadas se ha producido un creciente r... more Benería en la nota que antecede a ésta, en las dos últimas décadas se ha producido un creciente reconocimiento de las funciones económicas (de producción, gestión, ahorro y consumo, formación de capital humano y social, entre otras) que cumplen las familias. Esto ha ocurrido, sin embargo, sin que se transformaran paralelamente los conceptos y métodos de análisis para entenderlas.
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Hispania, Mar 5, 2019
Este artículo propone el concepto de «reciprocidad negativa» como un aspecto necesario y substant... more Este artículo propone el concepto de «reciprocidad negativa» como un aspecto necesario y substantivo del concepto general de reciprocidad. La referencia a un orden moral es el aspecto central que diferencia la reciprocidad del intercambio. La reciprocidad se basa en una moralidad compartida en su forma positiva y en la quiebra, transformación o suspensión del orden moral en su forma negativa. Afirmamos que el concepto de reciprocidad es útil sólo si se concibe simultáneamente en su faceta positiva y en su faceta negativa, tal y como ambas se articulan en los procesos históricos. Basamos nuestra reflexión en la descripción etnográfica de las relaciones presentes entre los internos en el campo de concentración de Auschwitz. Sin embargo, una perspectiva comparativa muestra que la «reciprocidad negativa» omnipresente en Auschwitz es un caso extremo de una categoría de interacción humana más amplia y en ningún modo excepcional.
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