Week 6: Globalization

Reading and media

• Book: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 2005. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Introduction, ch1-5]
• Media: Short film: Fair Trade: The First Step - Patagonia
• Media: Podcast - Costing the Earth: The Palm Oil Palm Off

Tuesday agenda

• Media discussion
• Commodification and globalization
• Web of life activity

Thursday agenda

• Book discussion

Assignments due

Recommended

• Recommended: Peluso, Nancy Lee. 1992. Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java. University of California Press.
• Recommended: Besky, S., 2014. The labor of terroir and the terroir of labor: Geographical Indication and Darjeeling tea plantations. Agriculture and Human Values, 31, pp.83-96.
• Recommended: Welker, M.A., 2009. “Corporate security begins in the community”: mining, the corporate social responsibility industry, and environmental advocacy in Indonesia. Cultural anthropology, 24(1), pp.142-179.