Up in smoke
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2616346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Keene (Cornell University [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2015 |
| Issue | 73 |
| Pages | 12-27 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Focaal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fcl.2015.730102 |
| OpenAlex | W2328322608 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper draws on the work of E. P. Thompson to understand anticapitalist resistance in northern California in the 1960s and 1970s. Through an analysis of the back-to-the-land movement in a region I call "Claytown," I show how the making of a rural moral economy was in part enabled by the presence of a nascent marijuana industry. However, whereas a relatively small-scale marijuana industry helped forge anticapitalist resistance in the 1960s and 1970s, this industry has become a form through which values of capitalist political economy are being instantiated and reasserted. I situate my ethnographic analysis within a broader historical and legal framework to show how a contemporary moral economy is made and increasingly unmade in the context of late capitalism
Capitalism · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Geography · Moral economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |