Re-Appropriating World Market Production: Commodity Chains in the Project of Postcolonial Development (1920-2000)

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Re-Appropriating World Market Production: Commodity Chains in the Project of Postcolonial Development (1920-2000)

Organizer
Patrick Neveling
Venue
University of Berne/Switzerland, Main Building, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Room 115
Location
Bern
Country
Switzerland
From - Until
18.06.2009 - 19.06.2009
Deadline
31.05.2009
Website
http://www.hist.unibe.ch/content/neuigkeiten/index_ger.html
By
Patrick Neveling

A perspective that explicitly focuses on post-colonial nation-states and looks at how commodity chains were established within competing projects of development and modernisation after World War II can shed new light on world economic developments happening from the 1980s onward. This workshop aims to bring together papers which look at the emergence of neo-liberal and structural adjustment policies from a wider perspective and thus question periodisations of globalisation and the often core-centred approaches to macro-scale developments. Because this perspective has the potential to show that events in the so-called peripheries actually triggered the slow-down of the growth of capitalism and the spectacular growth of finance capitalism in the West from the 1980s onward, it is important to take the postcolonial re-appropriation of world market production in the respective nation-states as a first empirical consideration.

The aim of this workshop is thus to compare different projects of postcolonial development, their origins and their trajectories in a comparative perspective that focuses on a single commodity central to the respective nation-state's ideology of development.

This workshop was funded by the Mittelbauvereinigung of Berne University and has been organised in collaboration with the Commodities of Empire Project, an international research network coordinated by London Metropolitan University's Caribbean Studies Centre and the Open University's Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies.

Programm

Thursday, June 18th

18:15 - 18:30
Welcome/Introduction to the Workshop
Patrick Neveling
Historical Institute and Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland

18:30 - 19:30
Keynote
Steve Reyna
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, University of Manchester, Great Britain
The Gathering Storm: Commodity Chains, Economic Turbulence, and Global Warring (1973 - 2009)

From 20:00
Dinner

Friday, June 19th

Session I
Commodity Chains within Changing Ideologies of Development

Chair:
Daniel Marc Segesser
Historical Institute, University of Berne, Switzerland

10:00 – 10:50
Jan-Frederik Abbeloos
Department of Contemporary History, Ghent University, Belgium
National Development and the Global Copper Commodity Chain: Looking Back at the Limits of the 1960s Nationalisation Agenda
10:50 - 11:40
David Bozzini
Institute of Anthropology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Footwear for Liberation, Footwear for the Nation: War, Economic Policy, Plastic Sandals, and Public Discourse in Eritrea

11:40 - 13:00 Lunch break

Session II
Commodity Chains, Entrepreneurship and the State

Chair:
Julia Eckert
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland

13:00 - 13:50
Daniel Münster
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Settler Colonists, Agrarian Entrepreneurs and the Permissive State. Aspects of the Political Economy of Hill Produce in Wayanad, South India, 1920 - 1998
13:50 - 14:40
Patrick Neveling
Historical Institute and Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland
The (Dis-)Comfort of Global Commodity Chains: Colonial and Postcolonial New Deals for the Mauritian Economy

14:40 - 15:20 Coffee break

Session III
Commodity Chains within ”Stable” Ideologies of Development

Chair:
Heinzpeter Znoj
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland

15:20 - 16:10
Emma Reisz
Department of History, Queen’s University Belfast, Great Britain
Rubber Commodity Chains, Race and Development Ideologies in Malaya

16:10 - 17:00
Christian Strümpell
South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany
Steel to Mould the Nation: Nehru’s Vision of Postcolonial Development, India in the World Economy and the Rourkela Steel Plant

17:00 - 17:20 Coffee break

17:20 - 18:00 Final Discussion

From 19:30 Dinner

Contact (announcement)

Patrick Neveling

Historisches Institut, Länggassstrasse 49, 3012 Bern

neveling@hist.unibe.ch

http://www.hist.unibe.ch/content/neuigkeiten/index_ger.html
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