Free Trade and Freedom

Slocum, Karla

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“…I contribute to these studies and the anthropology of business in three main ways. Firstly, I examine the rarely considered subject of free trade from the perspective of elites (Shore and Nugent 2002) engaged or implicated in the making of trade policy as opposed to "local" people who are affected by free trade (Gledhill 1995, Gutmann 1998, Hewamanne 2008, Pearson 2013, Slocum 2006. This approach involves "studying up" (Nader 1974) in order to understand how power is produced through trade policy.…”

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Unfair Trade: Protectionism, Protests and the Pursuit of Free Trade in New Zealand

Maher¹

2019

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Is free trade dead? In January 2017, President Trump withdrew the United States from the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement (TPP). This paper examines some of the anthropological implications of what emerged out of the “death” of the TPP. It analyses what this reveals about the changing contours of the neoliberal state, business-government relations and the subjectivity of corporate leaders. More broadly, it seeks to explain the tenacity of free trade and what is at stake in pursuing free trade agreements such as the TPP. Drawing on fieldwork among state and business elites in New Zealand, the paper suggests that rather than rethink its policy direction, the state deployed discursive strategies and elicited the help of business to reposition free trade as the solution, not the cause that eventually “killed” the TPP. Thus, rather than undermine neoliberalism, the demise of the TPP opened the possibility of its advancement.

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Unfair Trade: Protectionism, Protests and the Pursuit of Free Trade in New Zealand

Maher¹

2019

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“…"I wouldn't work more for you," he reasoned. As I explained in my book (Slocum, 2006), he was signaling that as an employee, he wouldn't apply himself the way he would for his own business. He had more incentive, he said, to invest himself in work on his tiny farm, even with his low returns, because it was work of his own organizing, potential profiteering, and self-advancement.…”

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Amplify, decolonize, collaborate, question: Action items for promoting just and antiracist economies: QUESTION: How can economic anthropology promote the construction of just and anti‐racist economic forms?

Slocum

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‘EDC girls’ and women's work: Race, gender and labor in the financial services sector in the US virgin islands

Navarro

2020

Feminist Anthropology

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This essay outlines my academic research on economic development in the Caribbean, which traces paradigm shifts in the region with particular attention to both the gendered ideologies underpinning these shifts and their gendered effects. Drawing on the long and important history of Caribbean feminist anthropology (Abraham‐Van der Mark 1983; Anderson 1986; Barrow 1995; Barrow 1998; Bolles 1983; Ellis 2003; Kempadoo 2004; Leo‐Rhynie 1997; Mohammed 2002; Mohammed and Shepherd 1988; Momsen 1993; Yelvington 1995), this article situates my research on development paradigms in the US Virgin Islands in this trajectory. Drawing on my ethnographic work on the Economic Development Commission (EDC) program and the women employed in this sector, this article affords me the opportunity to engage with the legacy of feminist ethnography that has enabled my continued engagement with naming both the centrality of the region to global economic processes and the significance of women's labor to these processes.

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Free Trade and Freedom

Cited by 21 publications

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Unfair Trade: Protectionism, Protests and the Pursuit of Free Trade in New Zealand

Unfair Trade: Protectionism, Protests and the Pursuit of Free Trade in New Zealand

Amplify, decolonize, collaborate, question: Action items for promoting just and antiracist economies: QUESTION: How can economic anthropology promote the construction of just and anti‐racist economic forms?

‘EDC girls’ and women's work: Race, gender and labor in the financial services sector in the US virgin islands

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