Other Capitalisms and Capitalism’s Others: Thinking Asia After Weber - A Conversation with Arjun Appadurai
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, March 2, 2016 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Description
This discussion will draw on Appadurai’s work on Max Weber to ask how we can build on his important efforts to understand India and
China as sites of what he saw as stunted capitalist potential. What have we learned since Weber’s lifetime about comparison, context
and capital that might allow us to assess Asian capitalism better than Weber (especially in the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,
but also in his work on Economy and Society) was able to do?
Arjun Appadurai is Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Dr. Appadurai is a socialcultural
anthropologist and a worldrenowned expert on the cultural dynamics of globalization. He is the author of The Social Life of Things (Cambridge: 1988), as well as numerous other books on topics ranging across globalization, gender issues, modernity, and worship, often with focus on India and southeast Asia. His latest book is The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition (Verso: 2013). He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Lunch will be served
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