Josephine Smart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josephine Smart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josephine |
| FAMILY NAME | Smart |
| SIGNATURE | SMART J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Posthumanist perspectives on transhumanist marketing: More than human genes, more than market promotion
Transhumanism advocates enhancement of current human capacities with new technologies, in pursuit of human improvement and perfection, and thereby creates lucrative marketing opportunities. We use the broader concept of posthumanism, which includes this, but also all the other ways in which humans are enhanced by non-humans. However, our study is not about posthumanism, but about how a posthumanist critique can enhance our analyses and diagnoses.…
In Search of Anthropology in China
The history of anthropology in China is known outside of China. This chapter explores the discipline’s transformations in the context of tensions and alliances between China’s nation-building agenda, as embodied in ideological rhetoric and praxis; socialist capitalism, which arose from the post-1978 economic reform; and globalization, in the form of networks and exchanges with persons and institutions outside China. Anthropology in Taiwan and Hon…
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Gentrification: The Erasure of Alternative Idioms of Displacement Resulting from Anglo-American Academic Hegemony
The concept of gentrification has become stretched, both conceptually and geographically, in ways that both erode its utility and displace alternative ways of understanding the displacement of lower-income people by urban transformation. Among the negative consequences that we consider is that the resulting pressure to reframe analysis in terms of gentrification reinforces Anglo-American academic hegemony and increases the difficulty of introduci…
In/formalization
Addressing a variety of locations and subjects across several social contexts and countries, this forum intends to stimulate novel ways of conceptualizing the inevitable interpenetration and entanglement of formalization and informalization as two interlinked social processes. Rather than proposing a new coherent definition of 'informality', we propose to consider 'in/formalization' as a space of practice and reflection which is crucial for engag…
Formalization as confinement in colonial Hong Kong
The nature of informal economies is structured by conflict between governmental strategies of confinement, to places, times and how things are done, and the transgression of these confines by informal actors in pursuit of survival or advantage. This article examines the influential development program of formalization in the context of these conflicts. Informality can be formalized in two ways, by eradication and by regularization. Building on th…
Opinions: What business anthropology is, what it might become… and what, perhaps, it should not be
No available abstract
(Im)mobilizing Technology: Slow Science, Food Safety, and Borders
Immobilization is generally thought to result from power and poverty acting against the acceleration produced by science and technology. In this article we explore neglected countervailing trends, such as quarantines, health inspections, and import bans, where science has the effect of restricting mobility, which we refer to as "slow science." As well as increasing mobility, science can be mobilized for political projects of restricting movement,…
Time-space Punctuation: Hong Kong's Border Regime and Limits on Mobility
Chinese people seem to be increasingly on the move, as this special issue emphasizes, among the diaspora, and especially among residents of the People’s Republic of China after it re-opened to the capitalist world after 1979. We argue, however, that an emphasis on mobility can be misleading unless we also pay close attention to factors that inhibit movement. Foremost among the inhibiting factors are international borders. The notion of a “world w…
Petty Capitalists and Globalization: Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development
Globalization and Modernity-A Case Study of Cognac Consumption in Hong Kong
IntroductionOne of the most readily observable aspects of globalization is the global circulation of goods and consumer cultures, even though this is only part of a much wider phenomenon which entails policies, processes and outcomes at global, regional, national and community levels (Rees and Smart, 2001). The highly successful marketing efforts of brand products of American and European origins create the widely held impression of the Westerniz…
Urbanization and the Global Perspective
Much of the literature about globalization exaggerates the degree of novelty. In this review, we concentrate on claims about what has changed about cities under late capitalism and globalization. Although we suggest that cities have long been influenced by global forces, we conclude that the roles of cities in the global system have changed considerably as a result of the time-space compression made possible by new transportation, communication, …
Migration and the “Second Wife” in South China: Toward Cross-Border Polygyny
Rapid industrialization in southern China has brought together two types of migrants: young women from towns and villages seeking work and upward mobility and affluent men from Hong Kong sojourning in the coastal provinces to supervise or service export-oriented industries. The result is that many married Hong Kong men who cross the border regularly on business have taken “second wives” or mistresses in China. We analyze this phenomenon using gov…
Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America, and Europe
Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America, and Europe. Carola Lentz. ed. Newark, NJ: Gardon and Breach Publishing, 1999. 296 pp
Local Citizenship: Welfare Reform Urban/Rural Status, and Exclusion in China
After 1949 China's welfare system developed on the basis of a status division between urban and rural residents. Urban and rural societies were profoundly influenced by the respective organization of their welfare systems, which shared the feature of being fixed to specific places (rural) or enterprises (urban). Reform of core institutions is constrained by path dependency. Knowledge of those constraints, however, can aid efforts to shape new pat…
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index
Canadian Perspectives on Labour Mobility in Apec
Capitalist Production Under Socialism in the People's Republic of China (PRC) Since 1978
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Land Rents and the Rise of a Petty Bourgeoisie in Contemporary China
Obligation and Control: Employment of kin in capitalist labour management in China
The A. discusses a theoretical perspective which helps to make sens of the forms of labour relations found in Hong Kong factories in China. Following that, he explores in detail a case study of a factory where kinship ties were extensively used in recruitment. He concentrates upon one particular strategy of the Chinese capitalism: the recruitment of kin as workers within the enterprise
Personal Relations and Divergent Economies: A Case Study of Hong Kong Investment in South China
Dog Kings Triads And Hawkers: Spatial Monopoly Among The Streer Hawkers In Hong Kong
Personal Relations and Divergent Economies: A Case Study of Hong Kong Investment in South China
Local Citizenship: Welfare Reform Urban/Rural Status, and Exclusion in China
After 1949 China's welfare system developed on the basis of a status division between urban and rural residents. Urban and rural societies were profoundly influenced by the respective organization of their welfare systems, which shared the feature of being fixed to specific places (rural) or enterprises (urban). Reform of core institutions is constrained by path dependency. Knowledge of those constraints, however, can aid efforts to shape new pat…
Urbanization and the Global Perspective
Much of the literature about globalization exaggerates the degree of novelty. In this review, we concentrate on claims about what has changed about cities under late capitalism and globalization. Although we suggest that cities have long been influenced by global forces, we conclude that the roles of cities in the global system have changed considerably as a result of the time-space compression made possible by new transportation, communication, …
Migration and the “Second Wife” in South China: Toward Cross-Border Polygyny
Rapid industrialization in southern China has brought together two types of migrants: young women from towns and villages seeking work and upward mobility and affluent men from Hong Kong sojourning in the coastal provinces to supervise or service export-oriented industries. The result is that many married Hong Kong men who cross the border regularly on business have taken “second wives” or mistresses in China. We analyze this phenomenon using gov…
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Gentrification: The Erasure of Alternative Idioms of Displacement Resulting from Anglo-American Academic Hegemony
The concept of gentrification has become stretched, both conceptually and geographically, in ways that both erode its utility and displace alternative ways of understanding the displacement of lower-income people by urban transformation. Among the negative consequences that we consider is that the resulting pressure to reframe analysis in terms of gentrification reinforces Anglo-American academic hegemony and increases the difficulty of introduci…
Time-space Punctuation: Hong Kong's Border Regime and Limits on Mobility
Chinese people seem to be increasingly on the move, as this special issue emphasizes, among the diaspora, and especially among residents of the People’s Republic of China after it re-opened to the capitalist world after 1979. We argue, however, that an emphasis on mobility can be misleading unless we also pay close attention to factors that inhibit movement. Foremost among the inhibiting factors are international borders. The notion of a “world w…
Obligation and Control: Employment of kin in capitalist labour management in China
The A. discusses a theoretical perspective which helps to make sens of the forms of labour relations found in Hong Kong factories in China. Following that, he explores in detail a case study of a factory where kinship ties were extensively used in recruitment. He concentrates upon one particular strategy of the Chinese capitalism: the recruitment of kin as workers within the enterprise
Formalization as confinement in colonial Hong Kong
The nature of informal economies is structured by conflict between governmental strategies of confinement, to places, times and how things are done, and the transgression of these confines by informal actors in pursuit of survival or advantage. This article examines the influential development program of formalization in the context of these conflicts. Informality can be formalized in two ways, by eradication and by regularization. Building on th…
(Im)mobilizing Technology: Slow Science, Food Safety, and Borders
Immobilization is generally thought to result from power and poverty acting against the acceleration produced by science and technology. In this article we explore neglected countervailing trends, such as quarantines, health inspections, and import bans, where science has the effect of restricting mobility, which we refer to as "slow science." As well as increasing mobility, science can be mobilized for political projects of restricting movement,…
Globalization and Modernity-A Case Study of Cognac Consumption in Hong Kong
IntroductionOne of the most readily observable aspects of globalization is the global circulation of goods and consumer cultures, even though this is only part of a much wider phenomenon which entails policies, processes and outcomes at global, regional, national and community levels (Rees and Smart, 2001). The highly successful marketing efforts of brand products of American and European origins create the widely held impression of the Westerniz…
Capitalist Production Under Socialism in the People's Republic of China (PRC) Since 1978
Land Rents and the Rise of a Petty Bourgeoisie in Contemporary China
Posthumanist perspectives on transhumanist marketing: More than human genes, more than market promotion
Transhumanism advocates enhancement of current human capacities with new technologies, in pursuit of human improvement and perfection, and thereby creates lucrative marketing opportunities. We use the broader concept of posthumanism, which includes this, but also all the other ways in which humans are enhanced by non-humans. However, our study is not about posthumanism, but about how a posthumanist critique can enhance our analyses and diagnoses.…
In/formalization
Addressing a variety of locations and subjects across several social contexts and countries, this forum intends to stimulate novel ways of conceptualizing the inevitable interpenetration and entanglement of formalization and informalization as two interlinked social processes. Rather than proposing a new coherent definition of 'informality', we propose to consider 'in/formalization' as a space of practice and reflection which is crucial for engag…
Opinions: What business anthropology is, what it might become… and what, perhaps, it should not be
No available abstract
Dog Kings Triads And Hawkers: Spatial Monopoly Among The Streer Hawkers In Hong Kong
Personal Relations and Divergent Economies: A Case Study of Hong Kong Investment in South China
Land Rents and the Rise of a Petty Bourgeoisie in Contemporary China
Obligation and Control: Employment of kin in capitalist labour management in China
The A. discusses a theoretical perspective which helps to make sens of the forms of labour relations found in Hong Kong factories in China. Following that, he explores in detail a case study of a factory where kinship ties were extensively used in recruitment. He concentrates upon one particular strategy of the Chinese capitalism: the recruitment of kin as workers within the enterprise
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Capitalist Production Under Socialism in the People's Republic of China (PRC) Since 1978
Canadian Perspectives on Labour Mobility in Apec
Local Citizenship: Welfare Reform Urban/Rural Status, and Exclusion in China
After 1949 China's welfare system developed on the basis of a status division between urban and rural residents. Urban and rural societies were profoundly influenced by the respective organization of their welfare systems, which shared the feature of being fixed to specific places (rural) or enterprises (urban). Reform of core institutions is constrained by path dependency. Knowledge of those constraints, however, can aid efforts to shape new pat…
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index
Migration and the “Second Wife” in South China: Toward Cross-Border Polygyny
Rapid industrialization in southern China has brought together two types of migrants: young women from towns and villages seeking work and upward mobility and affluent men from Hong Kong sojourning in the coastal provinces to supervise or service export-oriented industries. The result is that many married Hong Kong men who cross the border regularly on business have taken “second wives” or mistresses in China. We analyze this phenomenon using gov…
Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America, and Europe
Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America, and Europe. Carola Lentz. ed. Newark, NJ: Gardon and Breach Publishing, 1999. 296 pp
Urbanization and the Global Perspective
Much of the literature about globalization exaggerates the degree of novelty. In this review, we concentrate on claims about what has changed about cities under late capitalism and globalization. Although we suggest that cities have long been influenced by global forces, we conclude that the roles of cities in the global system have changed considerably as a result of the time-space compression made possible by new transportation, communication, …
Globalization and Modernity-A Case Study of Cognac Consumption in Hong Kong
IntroductionOne of the most readily observable aspects of globalization is the global circulation of goods and consumer cultures, even though this is only part of a much wider phenomenon which entails policies, processes and outcomes at global, regional, national and community levels (Rees and Smart, 2001). The highly successful marketing efforts of brand products of American and European origins create the widely held impression of the Westerniz…
Petty Capitalists and Globalization: Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development
Time-space Punctuation: Hong Kong's Border Regime and Limits on Mobility
Chinese people seem to be increasingly on the move, as this special issue emphasizes, among the diaspora, and especially among residents of the People’s Republic of China after it re-opened to the capitalist world after 1979. We argue, however, that an emphasis on mobility can be misleading unless we also pay close attention to factors that inhibit movement. Foremost among the inhibiting factors are international borders. The notion of a “world w…
(Im)mobilizing Technology: Slow Science, Food Safety, and Borders
Immobilization is generally thought to result from power and poverty acting against the acceleration produced by science and technology. In this article we explore neglected countervailing trends, such as quarantines, health inspections, and import bans, where science has the effect of restricting mobility, which we refer to as "slow science." As well as increasing mobility, science can be mobilized for political projects of restricting movement,…
Opinions: What business anthropology is, what it might become… and what, perhaps, it should not be
No available abstract
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Gentrification: The Erasure of Alternative Idioms of Displacement Resulting from Anglo-American Academic Hegemony
The concept of gentrification has become stretched, both conceptually and geographically, in ways that both erode its utility and displace alternative ways of understanding the displacement of lower-income people by urban transformation. Among the negative consequences that we consider is that the resulting pressure to reframe analysis in terms of gentrification reinforces Anglo-American academic hegemony and increases the difficulty of introduci…
In/formalization
Addressing a variety of locations and subjects across several social contexts and countries, this forum intends to stimulate novel ways of conceptualizing the inevitable interpenetration and entanglement of formalization and informalization as two interlinked social processes. Rather than proposing a new coherent definition of 'informality', we propose to consider 'in/formalization' as a space of practice and reflection which is crucial for engag…
Formalization as confinement in colonial Hong Kong
The nature of informal economies is structured by conflict between governmental strategies of confinement, to places, times and how things are done, and the transgression of these confines by informal actors in pursuit of survival or advantage. This article examines the influential development program of formalization in the context of these conflicts. Informality can be formalized in two ways, by eradication and by regularization. Building on th…
In Search of Anthropology in China
The history of anthropology in China is known outside of China. This chapter explores the discipline’s transformations in the context of tensions and alliances between China’s nation-building agenda, as embodied in ideological rhetoric and praxis; socialist capitalism, which arose from the post-1978 economic reform; and globalization, in the form of networks and exchanges with persons and institutions outside China. Anthropology in Taiwan and Hon…
Posthumanist perspectives on transhumanist marketing: More than human genes, more than market promotion
Transhumanism advocates enhancement of current human capacities with new technologies, in pursuit of human improvement and perfection, and thereby creates lucrative marketing opportunities. We use the broader concept of posthumanism, which includes this, but also all the other ways in which humans are enhanced by non-humans. However, our study is not about posthumanism, but about how a posthumanist critique can enhance our analyses and diagnoses.…
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