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Working Session: Engagement with Capitalism
Organizers: Fiona McCormack and Kate Barclay

This session built on a well-attended and lively informal session in Hawai‘i in 2011, and was again well-attended with enthusiastic discussion of the empirical and theoretical issues. We have decided to revise the papers in light of the discussions and submit them as a Special Issue of a journal during 2012. We feel the topics covered in the papers should speak beyond anthropology, and also beyond Oceania, so we are aiming for journals with a broad international readership concerned with issues of economic and human development. George Curry became involved this year and will write a conclusion paper for the Special Issue.

Participants:

  • Kate Barclay & Jeff Kinch: Locally Specific Capitalism and Sustainability in Coastal Fisheries
  • David Boyd: Negotiating a Local Modernity on the Margins of Capitalism: The Irakia Awa Case
  • Shu Yuan Yang: Engagement with Capitalism as an Emotional Process: Envy, Desire, and Economic Rationality/Irrationality among the Bugkalot/Ilongot of Northern Luzon, Philippines
  • Steffen Dalsgaard: The Politics of Remittance and the Role of Returning Migrants: Localizing Capitalism in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
  • Toon van Meijl: Neotribal Capitalism in Maori Society?
  • Edvard Hviding: ‘The Time of Development’: Timber, Religion and Rural Engagements with Capitalism in the Western Solomons
  • Martha Macintyre & Nicholas Bainton: Business Development in the Context of Mining Projects
  • Fiona McCormack: Negotiating Capitalism: Small-scale fishers in New Zealand and Hawai‘i
  • Mark Mosko: Money, Food, Magic and Fame: New Excesses in North Mekeo Commoditization
  • Anton Ploeg: Capitalism Among the Me?
  • Tim Sharp: Power, Agency and Sociality in the Papua New Guinean Betel Nut Trade
  • Malia Talakai: Competing Claims of Ownership in Tonga (discussed in absentia, recorded and sound files sent to author).

Fiona McCormack, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i-Hilo, 200 W. Kawili Street, HI 96720; tel. (808) 974-7472, fionam@hawaii.edu

Kate Barclay, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA; +61 29514 1579, Kate.Barclay@uts.edu.au