ANTH 303 Anthropological Theory Fall 2017
Nov. 16: Applying Marx READ: Narotzky, Susana (2011) “Memories of conflict and present-day struggles in Europe: New tensions between corporatism, class, and social movements.” Identities 18(2): 97-112

- what is her question, and how does it compare to the questions posed by Durkheim, Latour, Goffman, Butler, etc.?
- note how Narotzky is using Marxist ideas, but also drawing on Marxists (Roseberry, Gramsci, Wolf, R. Williams, Harvey) to develop a new set of conceptual tools to understand the current political economy
- who was Franco? i.e. why were people she talked to concerned about the Civil War, democracy, and the situation since Franco died?
Some marxist concepts she uses:
    - political economy
    - a particular understanding of capitalism as a system of production based on exploitative social relations of production
    - class
    - social reproduction
    - hegemony
    - flexible work process
    - precarity
    - militant particularism
What she develops:
    - defeat (history)
    - suffering (situated understanding of present)
    - struggle (collective action to work toward a better future)
    - she sees these as linked by memory

- another trendy current marxist concept: accumulation by dispossession

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