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Susana Narotzky

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ID295
NAMESusana Narotzky
GIVEN NAMESSusana
FAMILY NAMENarotzky
SIGNATURENAROTZKY S
AFFILIATIONSUniversitat de Barcelona
ORCID0000-0001-7390-7840
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS496
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX9
  • Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region: A Socioecological View

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, N Buier et al.•BOOK•Agricultural Extractivism in the…•2025

  • Anthropologie du travail

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Anthropen•2025

    Le concept de travail fait référence à deux axes analytiques imbriqués : les rapports sociaux et les rapports matériels. Les rapports de pouvoir et de domination à l’échelle locale et globale définissent la valeur matérielle et sociale des tâches et des activités qui engagent les personnes dans la reproduction de leur vie en société. Cet article analyse le travail du point de vue de la reproduction de la société où le travail payé et non payé s’a…

  • Simultaneous disruptions: Forms of livelihood, fragmentation of classes, and social labor in the twenty-first century

    Open Access•Kasmir, Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Dialectical Anthropology•2025

  • Connexions et contradictions: Jeu d’échelles dans la production agro-industrielle de fruits rouges dans le sud de l’Espagne

    N Buier, Alicia Reigada et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropologie et Sociétés•2025•References: 4

    L’agriculture intensive de fruits rouges dans la province de Huelva (Espagne) se présente comme le résultat de l’effort de petits agriculteurs locaux qui sont parvenus à développer un secteur d’exportation dynamique et à augmenter l’offre d’emploi dans la région. Cependant, ce succès apparent repose sur un système de mobilisation de la main-d’oeuvre et d’extraction d’eau souterraine qui a produit une crise socioécologique. À partir d’un travail e…

  • Destruction productive ou prédation permanente ? L'eau, le travail et l'accumulation dans la production de fraises à Huelva (Andalousie, Espagne)

    N Buier, Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•L Homme•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 28

    Cet article aborde une énigme majeure de nos sociétés capitalistes : comment expliquer la reproduction et l'expansion d'un système économique qui semble systématiquement détruire la vie humaine ou autre ? Les concepts d'accumulation prédatrice et de destruction productive ont été proposés comme cadres théoriques pour expliquer les processus capitalistes. Un premier examen du vaste champ sémantique de la prédation, de la destruction productive et …

  • Republican Rules of Reproduction and “Flipping the Script” on U.S. Health Care Reform

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, Rodney Loeppky•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2023

    Given the relatively conservative and marketized nature of U.S. health care reform, it remains unclear both why Republican resistance has been so intractable through much of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) tenure and why it has so suddenly receded into the background. This article seeks an explanatory mechanism to make sense of the ACA's changing historical fortunes, from enactment to the present. It argues that the Republican Party's “rules of…

  • Cost of living: Expert concepts and everyday efforts in unstable landscapes

    Open Access•Federico Neiburg, Isabelle Guérin et al.•ARTICLE•International Sociology•2023•References: 12

  • Marxism in the horizon: An essay on Maurice Godelier

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Dialectical Anthropology•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 12

    With his systematic review and methodical discussion of other scholars' works, Godelier constructed a theory of Marxism that "made sense" in the empirical worlds of anthropology, while preserving the main tenets of historical materialism and dialectical materialism. From his writings in the 1970s, his workshops on "transition," and his seminars at the CNRS in the early 1980s, we learned to think theoretically about our ethnographic material, and …

  • Moral dilemmas in food provisioning: Inflation, the claim for 'just prices' and for 'fair wages

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, Bibiana Martínez Álvarez•ARTICLE•International Sociology•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    The cost of living we envision here stems from an interpretation of the 'cost of living' phrase which addresses (1) macro indicators of inflation, (2) the difference between farm gate price and consumer price as a cost to farmers that endangers their viability, and (3) how this cost transfers to the wages of workers and endangers their livelihood. Finally, (4) we wish to highlight that the energy that needs to be invested to assure social reprodu…

  • The Janus face of austerity politics: Autonomy and dependence in contemporary Spain

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Focaal•2021

    How is social reproduction possible in a context of precarious employment and austerity policies that have defunded welfare? The paradox of autonomy and dependence is present in intergenerational relations of support and conflict at various scales. It emerges, on the one hand, in the neoliberal injunction to be individually responsible for one’s own present and future wellbeing, an aspiration that is impossible to fulfill. On the other hand, it i…

  • La política de la evidencia en un mundo incierto: Experiencia, conocimiento, datos sociales y verdad factual

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Disparidades. Revista de…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    El conocimiento nunca es evidente por sí mismo y es siempre una lucha por la evidencia: lo que cuenta y lo que no cuenta. El conocimiento es parte de la política de la evidencia. Necesitamos desentrañar los procesos que crean valores de verdad en un campo de poder. Aquí deseo abordar la tensión entre la experiencia, el conocimiento vernáculo y la evidencia, ya que constituyen los cimientos de la movilización política durante la recesión económica…

  • Crisis, valor y esperanza: Repensar La Economía

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, N Besnier•ARTICLE•Cuadernos de antropología social•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 15

    Crisis, valor y esperanza son tres conceptos cuya intersección y mutua constitución permiten repensar la naturaleza de la vida económica, tomando distancia de los modelos abstractos alejados de las realidades cotidianas de las personas comunes -modelos cuyas deficiencias quedaron dramáticamente expuestas con la actual crisis económica mundial-. Esta propuesta busca poner de relieve los complejos modos en que las personas intentan construir "vidas…

  • Populism’s Claims: The Struggle Between Privilege and Equality

    Susana Narotzky•CHAPTER•Democracy's Paradox•2019

  • Austerity Lives in Southern Europe: Experience, Knowledge, Evidence, and Social Facts

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    We are immersed in a political struggle around "facts." Hannah Arendt (1967), in her classic piece on "Truth and Politics," quoted above, carefully examined the difference between "factual truth" and its interpretation in order to show the political danger of obliterating the distinction between truth and opinion. The interpretation of facts and how to deal with them in order to change the world were the stuff of political projects and action but…

  • Economy, Feminist Approaches to

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•OTHER•The International Encyclopedia of…•2018

    Feminist approaches to the economy question many taken‐for‐granted dichotomies that define what counts as economic practices. By critiquing the methodological separation between private and public realms, feminist scholars point to the political and ideological aspects of economic differentiation. The concept of social reproduction that includes biological, cultural, and systemic aspects of the continuity of a society is central to feminist under…

  • The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours: Reciprocity, Social Capital and the Blurring of Value Realms in Flexible Capitalism

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•CHAPTER•Flexible capitalism•2018

    This chapter is based on two ethnographic experiences in Spain, the first in a farming area of rural Catalonia (where I undertook research from 1986 to 1988), the second one in a regional economy in the south of the autonomous community of Valencia (where I carried out research in 1995/6 with Gavin Smith). A historical perspective, central to both analyses, has enabled a better understanding of historical transformation, particularly in relation …

  • Rethinking the concept of labour

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2018•Cited by: 30•References: 45

    Is labour a useful concept for anthropology today? This essay attempts to respond theoretically to the challenge that the contributions to this special issue empirically pose. The essay rethinks the concept of labour by addressing three questions that deal with the relation of human work effort and capital accumulation: the first refers to alienation; the second to the difference between abstract and concrete labour; and the third to ambiguity. O…

  • Anthropologies and Anthropology in Tension: A Preface

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2016•Cited by: 2

  • Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa: El Espíritu 'Cooperativo' en La Transición

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Arxiu d Etnografia de Catalunya•2016

    Los datos de que hago uso para el planteamiento de la hipótesis han sido recogidos durante dos años de trabajo de campo discontinuo entre diciembre de 1984 y febrero de 1986 en una zona rural olivarera de la comarca de Les Garrigues, Lérida. Concretamente los datos se refieren a Ceral y a la cooperativa de trabajo asociado S.J. del sector de la confección de Argés. Los datos generales provienen del Registro General de Cooperativas de Catalunya y …

  • On waging the ideological war: Against the hegemony of form

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2016•Cited by: 15•References: 26

    This article seeks to rehabilitate the concept of ideology as a necessary tool of struggle against present-day capitalism. Post-structuralist epistemologies, by celebrating pluralism and the emergent character of knowledge and politics, have rendered the intellectual production of a unitary theory an obsolete remnant of a Modernist past. I contend that these well-meaning anti-authoritarian epistemologies unwillingly express the hegemony of a form…

  • Where Have All the Peasants Gone

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•2016•Cited by: 39•References: 123

    By revisiting earlier debates around the definition of peasantries and new issues around farming in present-day agricultural regimes, this review underlines the uneven forms of capitalist surplus extraction. After revisiting the classic debate, I explore present-day issues such as market-led agrarian reforms, land grabs, and transnational peasant movements that recenter the peasant debate. The following sections address two expressions of small-s…

  • Between Inequality and Injustice: Dignity as a Motive for Mobilization During the Crisis

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•History and Anthropology•2016•Cited by: 60•References: 33

    Structural adjustment policies in Europe underscore the lack of sovereignty and responsibility of nation-states towards the well-being of their citizens. As a result, in popular mobilizations arguments of inequality and injustice, expressed in a demand for dignity, are intertwined. The article explores this shift away from older arguments of exploitation and domination. Using ethnographic material from an industrial town in Galicia (Spain), I ana…

  • Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism: Global models, local lives?

    Victoria Goddard, Susana Narotzky•BOOK•Industry and Work in Contemporary…•2015

  • Economías ordinarias: Valores escondidos. Otra antropología de la crisis desde el sur de Europa

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Antrópica revista de ciencias…•2015

    La presente conferencia magistral se dictó en el marco del III Congreso Mexicano de Antropología Social y Etnología “Sociedad y Culturas en Transformación: nuevos debates y viejos derroteros en antropología mexicana” el 25 de septiembre de 2014. La misma se llevó a cabo en el auditorio Gustavo Baz del Palacio de la Antigua Escuela de Medica, ubicado en el centro histórico de la Ciudad de México

  • A Political Anthropologist's Journey from the Local to the Global: An Interview with Irène Bellier (CNRS-Ehess)

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, Margaret Buckner•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2015

    Irène Bellier is a political anthropologist, a research director in the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [National Center for Scientific Research]), and the head of LAIOS (Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales) at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, France. Trained at the Institut d'Études Politiques, she earned her PhD in anthropology at the EHESS. Her d…

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  • Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy

    Susana Narotzky, N Besnier•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•2014•Cited by: 211•References: 94

    Crisis, value, and hope are three concepts whose intersection and mutual constitution open the door for a rethinking of the nature of economic life away from abstract models divorced from the everyday realities of ordinary people, the inadequacies of which the current world economic crisis has exposed in particularly dramatic fashion. This rethinking seeks to bring to center stage the complex ways in which people attempt to make life worth living…

  • Between Inequality and Injustice: Dignity as a Motive for Mobilization During the Crisis

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•History and Anthropology•2016•Cited by: 60•References: 33

    Structural adjustment policies in Europe underscore the lack of sovereignty and responsibility of nation-states towards the well-being of their citizens. As a result, in popular mobilizations arguments of inequality and injustice, expressed in a demand for dignity, are intertwined. The article explores this shift away from older arguments of exploitation and domination. Using ethnographic material from an industrial town in Galicia (Spain), I ana…

  • New Directions in Economic Anthropology

    Susana Narotzky•BOOK•New Directions in Economic…•1997•Cited by: 60

  • Where Have All the Peasants Gone

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•2016•Cited by: 39•References: 123

    By revisiting earlier debates around the definition of peasantries and new issues around farming in present-day agricultural regimes, this review underlines the uneven forms of capitalist surplus extraction. After revisiting the classic debate, I explore present-day issues such as market-led agrarian reforms, land grabs, and transnational peasant movements that recenter the peasant debate. The following sections address two expressions of small-s…

  • Rethinking the concept of labour

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2018•Cited by: 30•References: 45

    Is labour a useful concept for anthropology today? This essay attempts to respond theoretically to the challenge that the contributions to this special issue empirically pose. The essay rethinks the concept of labour by addressing three questions that deal with the relation of human work effort and capital accumulation: the first refers to alienation; the second to the difference between abstract and concrete labour; and the third to ambiguity. O…

  • The Project in the Model: Reciprocity, Social Capital, and the Politics of Ethnographic Realism

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•2007•Cited by: 20•References: 73

    Concepts such as "reciprocity," "embeddedness," and "social capital" have been the main tools for description and analysis of social relations sustaining economic activities in areas defined as regional economies or industrial districts, becoming models for successful development in Europe. Historicizing these concepts, stressing the concrete political agendas of the scholars who produced them, reveals them as paradoxical in that, though they are…

  • On waging the ideological war: Against the hegemony of form

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2016•Cited by: 15•References: 26

    This article seeks to rehabilitate the concept of ideology as a necessary tool of struggle against present-day capitalism. Post-structuralist epistemologies, by celebrating pluralism and the emergent character of knowledge and politics, have rendered the intellectual production of a unitary theory an obsolete remnant of a Modernist past. I contend that these well-meaning anti-authoritarian epistemologies unwillingly express the hegemony of a form…

  • Immediate Struggles: People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain

    Susana Narotzky, Gavin J D Smith et al.•BOOK•Immediate Struggles•2006•Cited by: 14

    This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union’s "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining rich oral histories with a sophisticated and nuanced structural understanding of changing political economies, the authors examine the growing divide …

  • Reciprocity's dark side: Negative reciprocity, morality and social reproduction

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, Paz Moreno Feliú et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2002•Cited by: 14•References: 23

    This article proposes the concept of negative reciprocity as a necessary and substantive aspect of the general concept of reciprocity. We contend that the concept of reciprocity is useful only when conceived simultaneously in its negative and positive forms as they are articulated in historical processes. If treated in all its complexity the concept of reciprocity might help us to understand the ambivalence often present in social relationships. …

  • Crisis, valor y esperanza: Repensar La Economía

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, N Besnier•ARTICLE•Cuadernos de antropología social•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 15

    Crisis, valor y esperanza son tres conceptos cuya intersección y mutua constitución permiten repensar la naturaleza de la vida económica, tomando distancia de los modelos abstractos alejados de las realidades cotidianas de las personas comunes -modelos cuyas deficiencias quedaron dramáticamente expuestas con la actual crisis económica mundial-. Esta propuesta busca poner de relieve los complejos modos en que las personas intentan construir "vidas…

  • Memories of Conflict and Present-Day Struggles in Europe: New Tensions between Corporatism, Class, and Social Movements

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Identities•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 1

    This lecture addresses the connection between the production in the present of particular memories of the past and the ability to frame present-day conflicts in ways that render certain possibilities legitimate while excluding others. Through the ethnographic material I have gathered during my career I will show how different projects of the future (personal and collective) appeal to memories of conflict that link responsibilities and generations…

  • Marxism in the horizon: An essay on Maurice Godelier

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Dialectical Anthropology•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 12

    With his systematic review and methodical discussion of other scholars' works, Godelier constructed a theory of Marxism that "made sense" in the empirical worlds of anthropology, while preserving the main tenets of historical materialism and dialectical materialism. From his writings in the 1970s, his workshops on "transition," and his seminars at the CNRS in the early 1980s, we learned to think theoretically about our ethnographic material, and …

  • Un nouveau paternalisme industriel: Les liens affectifs dans les rapports de production des réseaux économiques locaux1

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Anthropologie et Sociétés•2002•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    L'analyse que je propose de deux économies régionales en Espagne souligne l'importance de la perspective historique pour l'étude des régions concrètes où s'établissent des réseaux de rapports personnalisés de production. C'est grâce à l'histoire qu'il va être possible de percevoir le poids du « culturel » dans ces économies régionales, mais aussi le poids des rapports de production dans la construction de la signification locale. D'un autre côté,…

  • The ideological squeeze: Casa", "Family" and "Co-Operation" in the Processes of Transition

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Social Science Information•1988•Cited by: 3•References: 7

  • Destruction productive ou prédation permanente ? L'eau, le travail et l'accumulation dans la production de fraises à Huelva (Andalousie, Espagne)

    N Buier, Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•L Homme•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 28

    Cet article aborde une énigme majeure de nos sociétés capitalistes : comment expliquer la reproduction et l'expansion d'un système économique qui semble systématiquement détruire la vie humaine ou autre ? Les concepts d'accumulation prédatrice et de destruction productive ont été proposés comme cadres théoriques pour expliquer les processus capitalistes. Un premier examen du vaste champ sémantique de la prédation, de la destruction productive et …

  • La política de la evidencia en un mundo incierto: Experiencia, conocimiento, datos sociales y verdad factual

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Disparidades. Revista de…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    El conocimiento nunca es evidente por sí mismo y es siempre una lucha por la evidencia: lo que cuenta y lo que no cuenta. El conocimiento es parte de la política de la evidencia. Necesitamos desentrañar los procesos que crean valores de verdad en un campo de poder. Aquí deseo abordar la tensión entre la experiencia, el conocimiento vernáculo y la evidencia, ya que constituyen los cimientos de la movilización política durante la recesión económica…

  • Anthropologies and Anthropology in Tension: A Preface

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2016•Cited by: 2

  • Las antropologías hegemónicas y las antropologías del sur: El caso de España

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Revista Andaluza de Antropología•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    The major theme I propose to address in "Hegemonic Anthropology and the Anthropologies of the South: The case of Spain" is that of power and the definition of the conditions of possibility of anthropological knowledge production. It deals with ethics and responsibility and with the relationship between anthropologists and anthropological subjects. I will trace the main strands of the debate and I will also show how new forms of hegemony are put i…

  • A Cargo del Futuro' - Between History and Memory: An Account of the `Fratricidal' Conflict during Revolution and War in Spain (1936-39)

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    ■ In this article I address conflict during the Spanish Civil War and the immediate post-war years by searching for any discernible social bases for the coalitions that confronted each other locally in a particular rural area in Catalunya. I try to address the real complexity of how civilians locally, and often violently, confronted their close neighbors and how this related to larger issues at stake. The careful reading of one document in this a…

  • Moral dilemmas in food provisioning: Inflation, the claim for 'just prices' and for 'fair wages

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, Bibiana Martínez Álvarez•ARTICLE•International Sociology•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    The cost of living we envision here stems from an interpretation of the 'cost of living' phrase which addresses (1) macro indicators of inflation, (2) the difference between farm gate price and consumer price as a cost to farmers that endangers their viability, and (3) how this cost transfers to the wages of workers and endangers their livelihood. Finally, (4) we wish to highlight that the energy that needs to be invested to assure social reprodu…

  • Austerity Lives in Southern Europe: Experience, Knowledge, Evidence, and Social Facts

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    We are immersed in a political struggle around "facts." Hannah Arendt (1967), in her classic piece on "Truth and Politics," quoted above, carefully examined the difference between "factual truth" and its interpretation in order to show the political danger of obliterating the distinction between truth and opinion. The interpretation of facts and how to deal with them in order to change the world were the stuff of political projects and action but…

  • Weaving Knowledge Histories around Political Engagement: A Story of Anthropological Understanding

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 12

  • The Cultural Basis of a Regional Economy: The Vega Baja del Segura in Spain

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Ethnology•2000•Cited by: 1

    The Vega Baja del Segura is a region in southeastern Spain with a long history of combining commercial agriculture and labor-intensive manufacturing (producing footwear, wooden boxes, fishing nets, carpets, and other items). At present, manufacturing firms competing in a global market put pressure on the local subcontractors for lower costs. Creating wealth here depends on producing cultural and social differences among people who otherwise share…

  • Teaching in crisis: Anthropology under structural adjustment

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•ANUAC•1970•Cited by: 1

    In this paper I want to address the pressure of structural adjustment policies on teaching and learning anthropology. I will base my thoughts on the Spanish case but the reflexion is applicable to many other countries in Europe. The decline in public funding and the increase in fees have transformed the meaning of higher education. Increasingly, productivity criteria and ranking measures become the guides to university investments and social valo…

  • Teaching in crisis: Anthropology under structural adjustment

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•ANUAC•1970•Cited by: 1

    In this paper I want to address the pressure of structural adjustment policies on teaching and learning anthropology. I will base my thoughts on the Spanish case but the reflexion is applicable to many other countries in Europe. The decline in public funding and the increase in fees have transformed the meaning of higher education. Increasingly, productivity criteria and ranking measures become the guides to university investments and social valo…

  • The ideological squeeze: Casa", "Family" and "Co-Operation" in the Processes of Transition

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Social Science Information•1988•Cited by: 3•References: 7

  • New Directions in Economic Anthropology

    Susana Narotzky•BOOK•New Directions in Economic…•1997•Cited by: 60

  • La sexualidad procreadora de las mujeres: Representaciones melanesias

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•ENDOXA•1998

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  • The Cultural Basis of a Regional Economy: The Vega Baja del Segura in Spain

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Ethnology•2000•Cited by: 1

    The Vega Baja del Segura is a region in southeastern Spain with a long history of combining commercial agriculture and labor-intensive manufacturing (producing footwear, wooden boxes, fishing nets, carpets, and other items). At present, manufacturing firms competing in a global market put pressure on the local subcontractors for lower costs. Creating wealth here depends on producing cultural and social differences among people who otherwise share…

  • Reivindicación de la ambivalencia teórica: La reciprocidad como concepto clave

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•ENDOXA•2002

    In this introductory paper the author points out several theoretical problems related to the polisemic and ambiguous uses of the concept of reciproty. However the author concludes that this concept can be very operative to explain transfers that are embedded in domains structured by cultural and social relations

  • Un nouveau paternalisme industriel: Les liens affectifs dans les rapports de production des réseaux économiques locaux1

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Anthropologie et Sociétés•2002•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    L'analyse que je propose de deux économies régionales en Espagne souligne l'importance de la perspective historique pour l'étude des régions concrètes où s'établissent des réseaux de rapports personnalisés de production. C'est grâce à l'histoire qu'il va être possible de percevoir le poids du « culturel » dans ces économies régionales, mais aussi le poids des rapports de production dans la construction de la signification locale. D'un autre côté,…

  • Reciprocity's dark side: Negative reciprocity, morality and social reproduction

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, Paz Moreno Feliú et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2002•Cited by: 14•References: 23

    This article proposes the concept of negative reciprocity as a necessary and substantive aspect of the general concept of reciprocity. We contend that the concept of reciprocity is useful only when conceived simultaneously in its negative and positive forms as they are articulated in historical processes. If treated in all its complexity the concept of reciprocity might help us to understand the ambivalence often present in social relationships. …

  • Immediate Struggles: People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain

    Susana Narotzky, Gavin J D Smith et al.•BOOK•Immediate Struggles•2006•Cited by: 14

    This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union’s "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining rich oral histories with a sophisticated and nuanced structural understanding of changing political economies, the authors examine the growing divide …

  • Binding labour and capital: Moral obligation and forms of regulation in a regional economy

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Etnografica•2006

    The article is a critique of models of successful economic development in Europe based on the “economic region” idea. These models stress the usefulness of embedding economic relations in the social fabric (“social capital”). The ethnography reveals, however, a conflict-laden space where increased embeddedness produces increased tension within the family and the community. In this “modelic” regional economy in Southern Alicante (Spain), recent vi…

  • A Cargo del Futuro' - Between History and Memory: An Account of the `Fratricidal' Conflict during Revolution and War in Spain (1936-39)

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    ■ In this article I address conflict during the Spanish Civil War and the immediate post-war years by searching for any discernible social bases for the coalitions that confronted each other locally in a particular rural area in Catalunya. I try to address the real complexity of how civilians locally, and often violently, confronted their close neighbors and how this related to larger issues at stake. The careful reading of one document in this a…

  • The Project in the Model: Reciprocity, Social Capital, and the Politics of Ethnographic Realism

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•2007•Cited by: 20•References: 73

    Concepts such as "reciprocity," "embeddedness," and "social capital" have been the main tools for description and analysis of social relations sustaining economic activities in areas defined as regional economies or industrial districts, becoming models for successful development in Europe. Historicizing these concepts, stressing the concrete political agendas of the scholars who produced them, reveals them as paradoxical in that, though they are…

  • On Agency and the Ethnographic Project

    Vasiliki P Neofotistos, Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•2008

  • Memories of Conflict and Present-Day Struggles in Europe: New Tensions between Corporatism, Class, and Social Movements

    Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Identities•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 1

    This lecture addresses the connection between the production in the present of particular memories of the past and the ability to frame present-day conflicts in ways that render certain possibilities legitimate while excluding others. Through the ethnographic material I have gathered during my career I will show how different projects of the future (personal and collective) appeal to memories of conflict that link responsibilities and generations…

  • Las antropologías hegemónicas y las antropologías del sur: El caso de España

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Revista Andaluza de Antropología•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    The major theme I propose to address in "Hegemonic Anthropology and the Anthropologies of the South: The case of Spain" is that of power and the definition of the conditions of possibility of anthropological knowledge production. It deals with ethics and responsibility and with the relationship between anthropologists and anthropological subjects. I will trace the main strands of the debate and I will also show how new forms of hegemony are put i…

  • Europe in crisis: Grassroots economies and the anthropological turn

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Etnografica•2012

    This article proposes a new approach to economic processes, one that is grounded in anthropological knowledge. The chaotic management of the crisis expresses the failure of the dominant “economic” paradigm. The time seems ripe for a new methodology and a different theoretical framework altogether. It is time for “Economic” knowledge to address an entire realm of economic behavior that is central to how people deal with their material needs and ex…

  • Ajec @ 21

    Open Access•U Kockel, Susana Narotzky et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Journal of…•2012

    AJEC @ 21: A Perspective from the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF)AJEC @ 21: A Perspective from the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)AJEC @ 21: A Perspective from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE

  • What kind of commons are the urban commons

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Focaal•2013

    Optimism of the will permeates this article, which builds on Lefebvre's idea of The Right to the City ([1968] 2009) and its more recent revival by Harvey, specially in his last work where, after a period of scepticism regarding recent urban social movements as potentially politically transformative, he seems to vindicate their potential as part of a class understanding of these movements (2012

  • Weaving Knowledge Histories around Political Engagement: A Story of Anthropological Understanding

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 12

  • Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy

    Susana Narotzky, N Besnier•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•2014•Cited by: 211•References: 94

    Crisis, value, and hope are three concepts whose intersection and mutual constitution open the door for a rethinking of the nature of economic life away from abstract models divorced from the everyday realities of ordinary people, the inadequacies of which the current world economic crisis has exposed in particularly dramatic fashion. This rethinking seeks to bring to center stage the complex ways in which people attempt to make life worth living…

  • Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism: Global models, local lives?

    Victoria Goddard, Susana Narotzky•BOOK•Industry and Work in Contemporary…•2015

  • Economías ordinarias: Valores escondidos. Otra antropología de la crisis desde el sur de Europa

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Antrópica revista de ciencias…•2015

    La presente conferencia magistral se dictó en el marco del III Congreso Mexicano de Antropología Social y Etnología “Sociedad y Culturas en Transformación: nuevos debates y viejos derroteros en antropología mexicana” el 25 de septiembre de 2014. La misma se llevó a cabo en el auditorio Gustavo Baz del Palacio de la Antigua Escuela de Medica, ubicado en el centro histórico de la Ciudad de México

  • A Political Anthropologist's Journey from the Local to the Global: An Interview with Irène Bellier (CNRS-Ehess)

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky, Margaret Buckner•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2015

    Irène Bellier is a political anthropologist, a research director in the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [National Center for Scientific Research]), and the head of LAIOS (Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales) at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, France. Trained at the Institut d'Études Politiques, she earned her PhD in anthropology at the EHESS. Her d…

  • Anthropologies and Anthropology in Tension: A Preface

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2016•Cited by: 2

  • Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa: El Espíritu 'Cooperativo' en La Transición

    Open Access•Susana Narotzky•ARTICLE•Arxiu d Etnografia de Catalunya•2016

    Los datos de que hago uso para el planteamiento de la hipótesis han sido recogidos durante dos años de trabajo de campo discontinuo entre diciembre de 1984 y febrero de 1986 en una zona rural olivarera de la comarca de Les Garrigues, Lérida. Concretamente los datos se refieren a Ceral y a la cooperativa de trabajo asociado S.J. del sector de la confección de Argés. Los datos generales provienen del Registro General de Cooperativas de Catalunya y …

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