Old Spirits of Capitalism: Managers and Masculine Alterity in/as the Korean Office

Prentice, Michael M.

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“…A well-known report commissioned by the late colonial government exemplifies this perspective, calling for "vigilance on the part of the public and the Government" in relation to those persons in the hand-weaving industry acting as middlepersons and seeking to "make quick profit by utilizing the skilled labour of a helpless working class at a nominal remuneration" (Thomas 1942, 78-79). See Prentice (2020) for a related analysis of how the male Korean office manager has become a devalued and deviant figure in contemporary Korea in ways that are central in articulating and differentiating models of capitalist subjectivity and institutional identity.…”

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Incorporating craft: An experiment in community ownership in postliberalization India

Lynch

2021

Economic Anthropology

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This article traces the efforts of India's largest private retailer of craft-Fabindia-to realize its vision of "inclusive capitalism" by creating a network of "community-owned companies" in which artisan-suppliers own shares. The contradictions and tensions inherent to this corporate project offer a critical vantage from which to examine processes of economic and political change both in India and globally. This ethnography reveals how the proposal to replace the traditional middleperson with a corporate body introduced new complications and conflicting interests throughout the supply chain. The competing efforts to determine the terms and nature of the relationships between supplier-shareholders, the community-owned companies, and Fabindia illuminate the on-the-ground negotiation of corporate social responsibility.

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Incorporating craft: An experiment in community ownership in postliberalization India

Lynch

2021

Economic Anthropology

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“…Some farmers now sought to redefine tobacco growing as a sign of irrational alterity rather than normative agrarian masculinity and as an ultimately emasculating pursuit in which leaf buyers toyed with and manipulated farmers (Prentice 2020). In contrast to old-fashioned (kuno) tobacco farmers, Syamsul declared himself a modern, cool (keren), enterprising farmer who, having turned to hydroponics, organic agriculture, and aquaculture with a freshwater catfish (ikan lele) operation that sold to restaurants, served as an example for others.…”

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“…8. Prentice (2020) similarly analyzes how the Korean senior male manager has become a devalued, deviant figure of alterity, a negative presence and foil for young reform-minded managers.…”

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Romancing "Yesenia" How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture

Salazkina

2024

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Welker 2018), and developed some of Kretek Capitalism's arguments in an article in Comparative Studies in Society and History (Welker 2021).I appreciate the unwavering support of my mother, Ann Welker, and my sisters Renata Welker and Carla Shumaker. I am especially grateful to my partner, Paul Nadasdy, and our children, Zoli and Andor, for accompanying me on this long journey and making each day special. spice (manis, pedas), and, especially in the case of the hand-rolled kretek and its smoke, qualities of thickness and heaviness (tebal, berat). The white cigarette, by contrast, is bland, tasteless, and light (rasa tawar, enteng) and tends to disappear quickly; once lit, the wind stealthily consumes it even if it's not actively smoked. A white cigarette takes about five minutes to smoke, compared to ten minutes for a machine-rolled kretek and a half-hour time commitment for a hand-rolled kretek. The latter weigh two grams, whereas machine-rolled cigarettes weigh a single gram or less. This book asks how kretek capitalism-understood as the accumulation of capital through the making, exchange, and consumption of clove cigarettes-enlists Indonesians to labor on its behalf in fields and factories, at retail outlets and social gatherings, and online. I focus on the efforts of Sampoerna, a Philip Morris International (PMI) subsidiary that claimed about one third of the Indonesian cigarette market during the 2010s. Kretek Capitalism charts how Sampoerna uses contracts, gamification, self-improvement logics, and class, gender, and age hierarchies to extract overtime, shift, seasonal, gig, and unpaid labor from workers, influencers, artists, students, retailers, and consumers.By centering labor, I develop an account of kretek capitalism that acknowledges but goes beyond the addictive hold of nicotine over individual smokers. Scientists have found that tobacco is harder to quit than alcohol, cocaine, and opiates, underscoring the lively and agentive potential of plants and their significant role in shaping human life (Bennett 2010; Galvin 2018; Langwick 2021; Myers 2017; Russell 2019). The younger a person is when they start using tobacco, the more likely they are to become addicted. Adolescent nicotine exposure disrupts normal brain development, changing how synapses are formed and harming the brain's capacity for attention and learning. Scientists have explicated the physiological mechanisms through which nicotine is absorbed, moving from the lungs into the blood and altering the chemistry of the brain and central nervous system by flooding the brain's reward circuits with dopamine and sparking an adrenaline rush that increases heart rate and raises blood pressure. 3 This kind of universal biochemical rendering of nicotine addiction is critical but insufficient to understanding kretek capitalism because it rests on an individualizing, internalizing, and often pathologizing logic that neglects "broader Marlboro Red Machine-rolled white 495 FF premium 13 1 Marlboro Black Men...

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“…And yet, while much work has documented that the form of represented discourse is significant, our tools for talking about that form are still crude. What Goffman (1974, 530) wrote in Frame Analysis remains true today: our competence in recognizing the importance of form in represented discourse "is far ahead of our Barker (2019) and Prentice (2020).…”

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Signs and Society

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Old Spirits of Capitalism: Managers and Masculine Alterity in/as the Korean Office

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Incorporating craft: An experiment in community ownership in postliberalization India

Incorporating craft: An experiment in community ownership in postliberalization India

Romancing "Yesenia" How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture

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