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Complete Schedule
- FRIDAY, MAY 12
- 8:15-9:00, Coffee and Breakfast
- 9:00-11:30, Session 1A, “Money, Markets, and Theories of Value”
- 9:00-11:30, Session 1B, “States and Agrarian Change I”
- 11:45-12:45 Lunch
- 1:00-3:00, Session 2A, “Movements and Settlement”
- 1:00-3:00, Session 2B, “States and Agrarian Change II”
- 3:30-5:30, Session 3A, “Subalternity, Violence, and Resistance”
- 3:30-5:30, Session 3B, “Power, Institutions, and Place I”
- 6:30-9:30, Dinner
- 8:15-9:00, Coffee and Breakfast
- 9:00-11:30, Session 4A, “Power, Institutions, and Place II”
- 9:00-1130, Session 4B, “Discursive Communities and the Aesthetics of Nature I”
- 11:45-12:45, Lunch
- 1:00-3:00, Session 5A, “Power, Institutions, and Place III”
- 1:00-3:00, Session 5B, “Discursive Communities and the Aesthetics of Nature II”
- 3:30-5:30, Session 6, “Kinship, Property, and Belonging in Historical Perspective”
- 6:30-9:30, Dinner
FRIDAY, MAY 12
8:15-8:45 Coffee and Breakfast
Luce Hall Common Area
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
Jim Scott (tentatively)
“Money, Markets, and Theories of Value”
Discussant: Pauline Peters
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- Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander
- “Inventing Money, Setting Prices, Creating Markets: Notes on the Politics of Value in Jepara, Indonesia”
- Henry Bernstein
- “Marxism Against the Peasantry?”
- Heinzpeter Znoj
- “The Money Economy of the Peasant”
- Bill Maurer
- “Forms of Money and Frameworks of Globalization”
“States and Agrarian Change I”
Discussant: Margaret Bolsterli
- Larry Lohmann
- “Shopping for Carbon: A New Plantation Politics”
- Jesse Ribot
- “Science and Profit in Environmental Management: Just Another Story about a Crisis That Wasn’t”
- Kathy Cooke
- “Safeguarding Local Knowledge or Protecting Scientific Development?: The Origins of the Agricultural Seed Certification Program in the United States”
- James McCann
- “Climate and Class in Highland Ethiopia: Historical Agronomy”
“Movements and Settlement”
Discussants: Angelique Haugerud and Witoon Permpongsacheroen
- Franz Schryer
- “The Dutch in Ontario Agriculture”
- Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek
- “Migration and Its Impact on Rural Society in Turkey”
- Paula Worby
- “Security and Dignity: Land Access and Guatemala’s Returned Refugees”
- Cindy Hahamovitch
- “The Banality of Exploitation: The Rise and Disappearance of Caribbean Labor in Florida’s Sugar Industry”
- Mary Beth Mills
- “From Peasant to (Global) Citizen and Back Again?: Locating and Dislocating Rural Identity in Thailand”
“States and Agrarian Change II”
Discussant: Margaret Keck
- Roderick Neumann
- “Ordering the Landscape for Social and Ecological Control in Twentieth-Century Tanzania”
- Steve Striffler
- “The Logic of the Enclave: United Fruit, Peasant Worker Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador”
- Sumit Guha
- “Claims on the Commons: Political Power and Natural Resources in Precolonial India”
- Thomas Summerhill
- “The United States as a Postcolonial State, 1789-1865”
3:30-5:30, Session 3A
Luce Hall Room 202
“Subalternity, Violence, and Resistance”
Discussant: Scott Nelson
- Catharine Newbury
- “Rwanda: Land, Politics, and Violence in Historical Perspective”
- Ricardo Salvatore
- “Subalterns, Politics and Markets in Rosa’s Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1829-1852”
- Paul Greenough
- “The Fabulization of ‘Man-Eating’ and Human Violence: Bio-ironies of Wildlife Conservation in the Indian Forest”
- Nancy Peluso
- “Rain Forests and Violence in Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo”
“Power, Institutions, and Place I”
Discussant: Catherine LeGrande
- Cecilia Mendez
- “Languages and Practices of Power in Rural Andean Society: Huanta and the Early Republic of Peru”
- Gaston Gordillo
- “The Locations of Hegemony: The Places and Politics of the Toba Struggle for La Comuna, 1989- 99”
- Eric Tagliacozzo
- “Silent Ships Across the Water: Smuggling, Ethnicity, and Peasant Production on Sumatra’s Pepper Coast”
- Paolo Squatriti
- “Boundaries, Territoriality, and Earthworks in Early Medieval Europe”
Speaker: Jim Scott
“Power, Institutions, and Place II”
Discussant: David Newbury
- Donna Perry
- “Marabouts and Merchants in Flux: The Impact of Neoliberal Policy on Rural Elite in Senegal”
- Rebecca Hardin
- “Concessionary Politics in the Congo: State, Company, and Clan-based Powers in the Struggle for Control of Forest Products in Central African Republic”
- Alexander Naty
- “Commercial Farming in the Western Lowlands of Eritrea: A Critical Appraisal”
- Eric Worby
- “Object Relations: Itineraries of Power and the Agency of Things in Northwestern Zimbabwe”
“Discursive Communities and the Aesthetics of Nature I”
Discussant: Bill Christian
- Liana Vardi
- “Was there a Physiocratic Aesthetic?”
- Robert Baldwin
- “The Culture of Nature in Early Modern Europe”
- Hugh Raffles
- “The Dreamlife of Ecology”
- Richard Grove
- “Islands and the Origins of Environmental History”
“Power, Institutions, and Place III”
Discussant: Ebrima Sall
- Ahmad Kamal
- “The Poor and the NGO Process in Bangladesh: Adjustments and Complicities”
- Cassandra Moseley
- “Between State and Community: Building Community-based Conservation in the Pacific Northwest”
- Rohan D’Souza
- “Military, Property, and Empire: The Decline of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals”
“Discursive Communities and the Aesthetics of Nature II”
Discussant: Lee Wandel
- Celia Lowe
- “Translating Nature: Heteroglossia and Polyglossia in the Languages of Nature-making”
- Stacy Leigh Pigg
- “Notes on the Social Production of Commensurability: Science, Facts, and Language in the Communication of HIV/AIDS Information in Nepal”
- Amitava Kumar
- “A Booker Prize Writer and a River”
3:30-5:30, Session 6
Luce Hall Room 202
“Kinship, Property, and Belonging in Historical Perspective”
Discussants: K. Sivaramakrishnan and Sugata Bose
- David Nugent
- “The Great Transformation and its Critics: Kin, Community, Property, and Democracy in Twentieth-century Latin America”
- Marc Edelman
- “Sources of Weakness and Strength in Transnational Small Farmers’ Movements”
- Peter Vandergeest
- “Resources and the Racialization of Space: Thailand and Malaysia”
- William Kelly
- “Green Revolutions and Smallholders: The Culture and Political Economy of Farm Families in Modern Japan”
- Michael Dove
- “At the Margins of State Control and Everyday Reality: Belonging on Merapi Volcano, Central Java”
- Parker Shipton
- "Legalism and Loyalism: Comparing European and African Understandings of ‘Rights’”
Conferencing and Breakouts
Luce Hall Room 203
Speaker: Terence J. Byres
Journal of Peasant Studies
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy
The University of London
