Economic Anthropology最新文献

{"title":"Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below","authors":"Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.70041","url":null,"abstract":"Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021. Building on prior scholarship at the intersection of carbon markets and cryptocurrencies, we probe the devices employed by Klima during its rise and fall and how this cryptocurrency also sought to create its own carbon market. Unlike earlier studies of carbon markets and cryptocurrencies, we explore KlimaDAO's internal dynamics as it tried to create a new connection to existing carbon markets through a two‐year‐long digital ethnography, showing how the project and its investors embraced speculative reasoning fueled by what we term a neoliberal logic. This rhetoric sustained the project's growth and exacerbated the losses. Finally, we recognize it as the main driver of KlimaDAO's viability. Our conclusions speak to the broader critical debates about the politics of green finance and how climate mitigation has emerged as a vector to attract small investors and blockchain enthusiasts rather than impacting climate change.","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147719843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits","authors":"Diego Silva Garzón","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.70040","url":null,"abstract":"Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy. Based on 7 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 30 interviews in Colombia, I trace the trajectory of a carbon credit from its production through local farming and auditing practices to its circulation at a chocolate fair in Paris. Drawing on Kockelman's semiotic ontology of the commodity, I show that credits acquire value only by establishing a credible equivalence between ecological practices and their symbolic representation. However, the audit labor of measuring, verifying, and certifying often outweighs or appropriates ecological labor, producing credibility rather than mitigation. When this gap becomes visible, the market responds not by aligning more closely with ecological practices but by multiplying layers of verification—an “audit spiral” that sustains credibility while deepening opacity.","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147655728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mercantilists’ Last Laugh. An Outline of the Origins of Money By Heinrich Schurtz. Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt (trans.), Hau Books, 2024. 273 pp. ISBN: 1914363078, 23USD.","authors":"Gustav Peebles","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70037","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Anthropology","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70039","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.70039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Entrepreneurial Becomings: Transformation, Crisis, and Aspiration in the Global Rise of Microentrepreneurship","authors":"Piergiorgio Di Giminiani,&nbsp;Sally Babidge","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70038","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the context of global economic and political crises, microentrepreneurship enjoys popularity both as a solution to poverty and as an empowering lifestyle based on values of independence and flexibility. While education, training, and engagement in entrepreneurship may have significant effects on self-making, social and economic change from entrepreneurial formation remains ambivalent. In this introductory essay, we set out how becoming an entrepreneur is an unfinished project in the lives of economic subjects, entailing practices actively tested, reconfigured as adaptive responses to individual and collective crises and aspirations, and conceived as related to an anticipated and critically assessed immediate future self.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145947277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Memoriam Keith Hart, 1943–2025","authors":"Chris Hann","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145938019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Other Half of the Ass: A Manifesto for Anthropology in Neo-Illiberal Times","authors":"Holly High","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70032","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;I applaud Michael Scroggins and his recommendations. In common with many readers of this journal, I have spent years reading about neoliberalism; now Scroggins provides a practical road map to put this knowledge into practice. Monetizing student anxiety, making markets out of lecture halls, commodifying success, and working behind a corporate shell: These are all excellent and workable suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scroggins errs in only two respects. First, he assumes that &lt;i&gt;the primary modality of the present is neoliberalism&lt;/i&gt;. Second, he assumes that &lt;i&gt;universities are concerned primarily with students&lt;/i&gt;. I unpack each of these errors in what follows. However, because these are interrelated issues, I unpack them together, like a single large piece of flat-packed furniture encased in multiple boxes. I argue, furthermore, that these issues are united by a single key (an Allen key or hex key, to force the simile onward into metaphor).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scroggins argues that today's university is half-assed neoliberal, but if that is so, then what is the other half of the ass? By unpacking Scroggins's argument and reassembling it with the aforementioned Allen key, my response pieces together the other half of the ass and suggests that this half is, in fact, the half-ass we should whole-ass.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scroggins defines &lt;i&gt;neoliberalism&lt;/i&gt; as making markets and suggests that the best path for anthropology is to go all in with the neoliberal flow. A clue to how outdated this idea is can be found in Scroggins's own epigraphs: Margaret Thatcher and Milton Friedman, both fossils dug up from the previous century! It is true that—had anthropology adopted Thatcher's and Friedman's excellent suggestions back in their day—the discipline would be reaping the benefits now. But that boat has sailed. Neoliberalism is passé. No doubt Scroggins is right that neoliberalism never did go far enough in anthropology. But just as we grasp the depth of the opportunity, it is slipping away, replaced by a new paradigm. Attempting to whole-ass neoliberalism now is too little, too late.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, consider the question of students. Scroggins notes that under neoliberalism, students are defined as consumers with outsized power over faculty. Yet this year alone, the United States canceled more than 6000 student visas. Closer to (my) home, in last year's federal election, Australian politicians competed with one another in promises to &lt;i&gt;restrict&lt;/i&gt; the lucrative international student market (even though education regularly ranks among Australia's top export earners, the only one of our top four exports that does not rely primarily on digging up rocks or drilling big holes). Despite the economic value of international students and immigration more generally to the Australian economy, August 2025 saw anti-immigration rallies organized by neo-Nazis in all major cities. If neoliberalism views students as cash cows in a market, neoliberal universities would open their arms wide to paying studen","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145938020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working the Fabric: Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland's Harris Tweed Industry. By Joana Nascimento, Berghahn Books. 2023. 230 pp. New York: Berghahn Books Series: Anthropology at work; volume 4 ISBN: 9781800738829 (hardback) ISBN: 9781800738836 (ebook).","authors":"Genevieve Soucek","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145908387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Money, Rank and the Frailty of Authority: Schurtz’s World and Ours. An Outline of the Origins of Money By Heinrich Schurtz. Translated and Annotated and With an Introduction by Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt (eds.), HAU Books, London. 2024. 274 pp. ISBN: 9781914363078 [paperback]; ISBN: 9781914363276 [PDF]; ISBN: 9781914363283 [e-book].","authors":"Bill Maurer","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145847247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. By Maron E. Greenleaf, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Paper $27.95; Hardcover $104.95. Pages: 304; Illustrations: 21 illustrations; Published: November 2024. Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-3108-6 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4780-2685-3 / eISBN: 978-1-4780-6007-9.","authors":"Eduardo Romero Dianderas","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145844760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}