Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-07Epub Date: 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12329
Fiona Gedeon Achi
{"title":"Reaching millions: Water, substitute infrastructure, and the politics of scale in Kenya","authors":"Fiona Gedeon Achi","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12329","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12329","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyzes the politics of scale in global development by focusing on a sanitation program in western Kenya. It follows the daily work of a nongovernmental organization that seeks to provide access to chlorine dispensers to millions of people for the purpose of disinfecting water. By engaging with literatures on development and infrastructure, this article proposes <i>reach</i> as an analytic that jointly attends to the aspirations, labors, and uncertain outcomes embedded in scale work. An ethnography of reach emphasizes the temporality of off-grid infrastructures to capture the ambivalent relationships between aspirations and results and between standardization and adaptation, as well as the unstable nature of care. This proves useful to theorizing expansion as potentially generative of, rather than only inimical to, the good life—thereby troubling the vision of scale making as replication often used to understand development projects and their consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.12329","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123488","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}
Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-07Epub Date: 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12336
Bill Maurer
{"title":"A promise is a promise: A love letter from the ACH to the world of 2050†","authors":"Bill Maurer","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12336","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12336","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Experiments in money often recapitulate long-standing human concerns over finality and fixity, despite money's reference points in political authority, trust, and the memorialization of relationships of credit and debt. From the point of view of the primary set of infrastructures facilitating the movement of money in 2050, those concerns are misplaced. Recounting the history of those infrastructures, this love letter from a future intelligence is addressed to those humans who would reimagine money so that they will recognize the human and technical infrastructures on which it has always depended.</p>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.12336","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142670484","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":"Legacies, logics, labors of love: Essays on the economic anthropology of Jane Guyer","authors":"Chelsie Yount, Sibel Kusimba, Caroline Bledsoe, Caitlin Zaloom","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12341","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12341","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869875","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}
Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-07Epub Date: 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12339
Claudia Marina Lanzidei
{"title":"Wastecraft and its multifaceted learning in Cuba","authors":"Claudia Marina Lanzidei","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12339","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12339","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Cuba, scarcity is an ever-present reality due to more than six decades of socialist regime and consequent economic embargo. One of the coping strategies for people facing such adversity has been to develop great abilities to repair and reuse objects and materials. In a certain way, Cubans are like Lévi-Straussian bricoleurs, or, better said, they are <i>engineers</i> who had to adjust their project because the universe of tools at their disposition was closed, leading them to make do with the less they are provided with. Indeed, they create objects by repairing and reusing parts and materials, and by doing so, they refer to specific concepts like inventing, innovating, adapting, and recycling. Many of the practices, apart from being a way of earning a living, directly depend on the recovery of discarded elements and are therefore part of a complex economy that involves waste, which, once recovered, becomes a resource again. This article focuses on how social actors regulate and negotiate access to remunerative knowledges related to waste, what I call <i>wastecrafts</i>. Drawing on anthropological literature about gift giving and sharing, I reflect on how the transmission of practices related to waste takes place in Havana. My argument is that practices of reciprocity, sharing, and, in some cases, stealing the art coexist and are all to understand within the emic ideas of <i>inventar</i>, <i>luchar</i>, and <i>sobrevivir</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.12339","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118433","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":"Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. By Melinda Cooper. New York: Zone Books. 2024. 564 pp.","authors":"Ilana Gershon","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12350","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142887421","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":"Response to comments: “Four alternative currencies and their worlds”","authors":"Santiago Mandirola","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12349","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884283","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":"Ancient numismatists and the seasteading movement","authors":"Scott M. Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12343","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869873","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":"Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus. By Theodoros Rakopoulos, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2024. pp. 248","authors":"Elena Borisova","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12335","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142763162","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":"Dolia: The containers that made rome an empire of wine. By Caroline Cheung, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2024. pp. 334","authors":"Paulina Komar","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12338","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142718283","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":"Kretek capitalism: Making, marketing, and consuming clove cigarettes in Indonesia. By Marina Welker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024. 248 pp.","authors":"Edward F. Fischer","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12337","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12337","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673152","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}