K M Millar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 37417 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K M Millar |
| NOMBRES | K M |
| APELLIDO | Millar |
| FIRMA | MILLAR K M |
| AFILIACIONES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5931-6008 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 352 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Dirt and Debt
Beginning in the early 2000s, policies and legislation aimed at financial inclusion drew millions of low-income Brazilians into the banking system for the first time. When many of these consumers were unable to keep up with credit card payments, they acquired a "dirty name"-the common expression in Brazil for default. An analysis of the historical origins and current use of this expression shows how it operates as a technology of racialization th…
Toward an economic anthropology of wisdom
This article examines two values that have long motivated work in economic anthropology: the value of denunciatory critique and the value of thinking otherwise. Through a retrospective analysis of research that I have conducted on consumer debt in Brazil, I offer two different versions of that research based on whether the story is driven by the first value of denunciation or by the second of thinking otherwise. In doing so, I suggest ways to add…
Recycling as Refusing the End of the World
How is the climate crisis viewed by workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who reclaim recyclables on a garbage dump — a place long entangled with decay and death? The act of reclaiming waste is a reminder that it is impossible to understand the current crisis without considering its origins in the labor of racial capitalism and in the productivism that capitalism demands. Reclaiming requires staying with degradation, remaking a world that is seeming…
Saia do Brasil Agora
Nos últimos anos, o número de brasileiros a deixarem o país atingiu cifras recordes, o que parece indicar uma nova e sem precedentes fase emigratória. Em contraste com os períodos anteriores da emigração brasileira, esta recente fase é composta, principalmente, de brasileiros que partem em família, com a intenção de não mais retornarem ao Brasil como residentes. O artigo analisa este novo movimento, por meio de uma etnografia dos brasileiros na G…
Decentering wage labor as a new class politics
Garbage as Racialization
This essay examines parallels between the representation of garbage and the racialized production of the category of the human. In recent years, waste has become a ubiquitous metaphor for understanding the lives of the jobless poor, perceived as discarded by global capitalism and thereby rendered "disposable life." The essay questions the conflation of waste with abjection through an ethnographic analysis of a film and art project produced on a g…
Reclaiming the Discarded
Toward a critical politics of precarity
In recent years, the term precarity has proliferated in the social sciences at the risk of losing its analytical purchase. This review considers the value and limitations of precarity in the various ways it has operated as both a theoretical and political concept. It first traces the historical development of the term in sociology and cognate fields, ultimately arguing for a relational approach to the concept rooted in the analysis of specific la…
The tempo of wageless work
This article puts E. P. Thompson's writings on time-sense in conversation with the temporality of work on a garbage dump in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At this site, several thousand urban poor (catadores) collect recyclables for a living outside relations of wage labor. The lived experience of "woven time" on the dump, which combines labor with other activities of the everyday, has fashioned what these workers call "a different rhyt…
The Precarious Present
This article explores the relationship between precarity as a labor condition and precarity as an ontological experience in the lives of urban poor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The focus is on a garbage dump on the outskirts of the city where thousands of Rio's poor, known as catadores, reclaim recyclables for a living. Attending to cyclic moments in which these workers leave the dump for other jobs and then return, I explore how everyday emergenci…
In Memory of Sonja Luehrmann
À la mémoire de Sonja Luehrmann
The Precarious Present
This article explores the relationship between precarity as a labor condition and precarity as an ontological experience in the lives of urban poor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The focus is on a garbage dump on the outskirts of the city where thousands of Rio's poor, known as catadores, reclaim recyclables for a living. Attending to cyclic moments in which these workers leave the dump for other jobs and then return, I explore how everyday emergenci…
Toward a critical politics of precarity
In recent years, the term precarity has proliferated in the social sciences at the risk of losing its analytical purchase. This review considers the value and limitations of precarity in the various ways it has operated as both a theoretical and political concept. It first traces the historical development of the term in sociology and cognate fields, ultimately arguing for a relational approach to the concept rooted in the analysis of specific la…
Garbage as Racialization
This essay examines parallels between the representation of garbage and the racialized production of the category of the human. In recent years, waste has become a ubiquitous metaphor for understanding the lives of the jobless poor, perceived as discarded by global capitalism and thereby rendered "disposable life." The essay questions the conflation of waste with abjection through an ethnographic analysis of a film and art project produced on a g…
The tempo of wageless work
This article puts E. P. Thompson's writings on time-sense in conversation with the temporality of work on a garbage dump in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At this site, several thousand urban poor (catadores) collect recyclables for a living outside relations of wage labor. The lived experience of "woven time" on the dump, which combines labor with other activities of the everyday, has fashioned what these workers call "a different rhyt…
Toward an economic anthropology of wisdom
This article examines two values that have long motivated work in economic anthropology: the value of denunciatory critique and the value of thinking otherwise. Through a retrospective analysis of research that I have conducted on consumer debt in Brazil, I offer two different versions of that research based on whether the story is driven by the first value of denunciation or by the second of thinking otherwise. In doing so, I suggest ways to add…
Dirt and Debt
Beginning in the early 2000s, policies and legislation aimed at financial inclusion drew millions of low-income Brazilians into the banking system for the first time. When many of these consumers were unable to keep up with credit card payments, they acquired a "dirty name"-the common expression in Brazil for default. An analysis of the historical origins and current use of this expression shows how it operates as a technology of racialization th…
In Memory of Sonja Luehrmann
À la mémoire de Sonja Luehrmann
The Precarious Present
This article explores the relationship between precarity as a labor condition and precarity as an ontological experience in the lives of urban poor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The focus is on a garbage dump on the outskirts of the city where thousands of Rio's poor, known as catadores, reclaim recyclables for a living. Attending to cyclic moments in which these workers leave the dump for other jobs and then return, I explore how everyday emergenci…
The tempo of wageless work
This article puts E. P. Thompson's writings on time-sense in conversation with the temporality of work on a garbage dump in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At this site, several thousand urban poor (catadores) collect recyclables for a living outside relations of wage labor. The lived experience of "woven time" on the dump, which combines labor with other activities of the everyday, has fashioned what these workers call "a different rhyt…
Toward a critical politics of precarity
In recent years, the term precarity has proliferated in the social sciences at the risk of losing its analytical purchase. This review considers the value and limitations of precarity in the various ways it has operated as both a theoretical and political concept. It first traces the historical development of the term in sociology and cognate fields, ultimately arguing for a relational approach to the concept rooted in the analysis of specific la…
Reclaiming the Discarded
Decentering wage labor as a new class politics
Garbage as Racialization
This essay examines parallels between the representation of garbage and the racialized production of the category of the human. In recent years, waste has become a ubiquitous metaphor for understanding the lives of the jobless poor, perceived as discarded by global capitalism and thereby rendered "disposable life." The essay questions the conflation of waste with abjection through an ethnographic analysis of a film and art project produced on a g…
Saia do Brasil Agora
Nos últimos anos, o número de brasileiros a deixarem o país atingiu cifras recordes, o que parece indicar uma nova e sem precedentes fase emigratória. Em contraste com os períodos anteriores da emigração brasileira, esta recente fase é composta, principalmente, de brasileiros que partem em família, com a intenção de não mais retornarem ao Brasil como residentes. O artigo analisa este novo movimento, por meio de uma etnografia dos brasileiros na G…
Recycling as Refusing the End of the World
How is the climate crisis viewed by workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who reclaim recyclables on a garbage dump — a place long entangled with decay and death? The act of reclaiming waste is a reminder that it is impossible to understand the current crisis without considering its origins in the labor of racial capitalism and in the productivism that capitalism demands. Reclaiming requires staying with degradation, remaking a world that is seeming…
Dirt and Debt
Beginning in the early 2000s, policies and legislation aimed at financial inclusion drew millions of low-income Brazilians into the banking system for the first time. When many of these consumers were unable to keep up with credit card payments, they acquired a "dirty name"-the common expression in Brazil for default. An analysis of the historical origins and current use of this expression shows how it operates as a technology of racialization th…
Toward an economic anthropology of wisdom
This article examines two values that have long motivated work in economic anthropology: the value of denunciatory critique and the value of thinking otherwise. Through a retrospective analysis of research that I have conducted on consumer debt in Brazil, I offer two different versions of that research based on whether the story is driven by the first value of denunciation or by the second of thinking otherwise. In doing so, I suggest ways to add…
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