{"title":"The Mercantilists’ Last Laugh. An Outline of the Origins of Money By Heinrich Schurtz. Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt (trans.), Hau Books, 2024. 273 pp. ISBN: 1914363078, 23USD.","authors":"Gustav Peebles","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70037","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the context of global economic and political crises, microentrepreneurship enjoys popularity both as a solution to poverty and as an empowering lifestyle based on values of independence and flexibility. While education, training, and engagement in entrepreneurship may have significant effects on self-making, social and economic change from entrepreneurial formation remains ambivalent. In this introductory essay, we set out how becoming an entrepreneur is an unfinished project in the lives of economic subjects, entailing practices actively tested, reconfigured as adaptive responses to individual and collective crises and aspirations, and conceived as related to an anticipated and critically assessed immediate future self.
{"title":"Entrepreneurial Becomings: Transformation, Crisis, and Aspiration in the Global Rise of Microentrepreneurship","authors":"Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Sally Babidge","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70038","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the context of global economic and political crises, microentrepreneurship enjoys popularity both as a solution to poverty and as an empowering lifestyle based on values of independence and flexibility. While education, training, and engagement in entrepreneurship may have significant effects on self-making, social and economic change from entrepreneurial formation remains ambivalent. In this introductory essay, we set out how becoming an entrepreneur is an unfinished project in the lives of economic subjects, entailing practices actively tested, reconfigured as adaptive responses to individual and collective crises and aspirations, and conceived as related to an anticipated and critically assessed immediate future self.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145947277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
<p>I applaud Michael Scroggins and his recommendations. In common with many readers of this journal, I have spent years reading about neoliberalism; now Scroggins provides a practical road map to put this knowledge into practice. Monetizing student anxiety, making markets out of lecture halls, commodifying success, and working behind a corporate shell: These are all excellent and workable suggestions.</p><p>Scroggins errs in only two respects. First, he assumes that <i>the primary modality of the present is neoliberalism</i>. Second, he assumes that <i>universities are concerned primarily with students</i>. I unpack each of these errors in what follows. However, because these are interrelated issues, I unpack them together, like a single large piece of flat-packed furniture encased in multiple boxes. I argue, furthermore, that these issues are united by a single key (an Allen key or hex key, to force the simile onward into metaphor).</p><p>Scroggins argues that today's university is half-assed neoliberal, but if that is so, then what is the other half of the ass? By unpacking Scroggins's argument and reassembling it with the aforementioned Allen key, my response pieces together the other half of the ass and suggests that this half is, in fact, the half-ass we should whole-ass.</p><p>Scroggins defines <i>neoliberalism</i> as making markets and suggests that the best path for anthropology is to go all in with the neoliberal flow. A clue to how outdated this idea is can be found in Scroggins's own epigraphs: Margaret Thatcher and Milton Friedman, both fossils dug up from the previous century! It is true that—had anthropology adopted Thatcher's and Friedman's excellent suggestions back in their day—the discipline would be reaping the benefits now. But that boat has sailed. Neoliberalism is passé. No doubt Scroggins is right that neoliberalism never did go far enough in anthropology. But just as we grasp the depth of the opportunity, it is slipping away, replaced by a new paradigm. Attempting to whole-ass neoliberalism now is too little, too late.</p><p>First, consider the question of students. Scroggins notes that under neoliberalism, students are defined as consumers with outsized power over faculty. Yet this year alone, the United States canceled more than 6000 student visas. Closer to (my) home, in last year's federal election, Australian politicians competed with one another in promises to <i>restrict</i> the lucrative international student market (even though education regularly ranks among Australia's top export earners, the only one of our top four exports that does not rely primarily on digging up rocks or drilling big holes). Despite the economic value of international students and immigration more generally to the Australian economy, August 2025 saw anti-immigration rallies organized by neo-Nazis in all major cities. If neoliberalism views students as cash cows in a market, neoliberal universities would open their arms wide to paying studen
{"title":"The Other Half of the Ass: A Manifesto for Anthropology in Neo-Illiberal Times","authors":"Holly High","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I applaud Michael Scroggins and his recommendations. In common with many readers of this journal, I have spent years reading about neoliberalism; now Scroggins provides a practical road map to put this knowledge into practice. Monetizing student anxiety, making markets out of lecture halls, commodifying success, and working behind a corporate shell: These are all excellent and workable suggestions.</p><p>Scroggins errs in only two respects. First, he assumes that <i>the primary modality of the present is neoliberalism</i>. Second, he assumes that <i>universities are concerned primarily with students</i>. I unpack each of these errors in what follows. However, because these are interrelated issues, I unpack them together, like a single large piece of flat-packed furniture encased in multiple boxes. I argue, furthermore, that these issues are united by a single key (an Allen key or hex key, to force the simile onward into metaphor).</p><p>Scroggins argues that today's university is half-assed neoliberal, but if that is so, then what is the other half of the ass? By unpacking Scroggins's argument and reassembling it with the aforementioned Allen key, my response pieces together the other half of the ass and suggests that this half is, in fact, the half-ass we should whole-ass.</p><p>Scroggins defines <i>neoliberalism</i> as making markets and suggests that the best path for anthropology is to go all in with the neoliberal flow. A clue to how outdated this idea is can be found in Scroggins's own epigraphs: Margaret Thatcher and Milton Friedman, both fossils dug up from the previous century! It is true that—had anthropology adopted Thatcher's and Friedman's excellent suggestions back in their day—the discipline would be reaping the benefits now. But that boat has sailed. Neoliberalism is passé. No doubt Scroggins is right that neoliberalism never did go far enough in anthropology. But just as we grasp the depth of the opportunity, it is slipping away, replaced by a new paradigm. Attempting to whole-ass neoliberalism now is too little, too late.</p><p>First, consider the question of students. Scroggins notes that under neoliberalism, students are defined as consumers with outsized power over faculty. Yet this year alone, the United States canceled more than 6000 student visas. Closer to (my) home, in last year's federal election, Australian politicians competed with one another in promises to <i>restrict</i> the lucrative international student market (even though education regularly ranks among Australia's top export earners, the only one of our top four exports that does not rely primarily on digging up rocks or drilling big holes). Despite the economic value of international students and immigration more generally to the Australian economy, August 2025 saw anti-immigration rallies organized by neo-Nazis in all major cities. If neoliberalism views students as cash cows in a market, neoliberal universities would open their arms wide to paying studen","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145938020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working the Fabric: Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland's Harris Tweed Industry. By Joana Nascimento, Berghahn Books. 2023. 230 pp. New York: Berghahn Books Series: Anthropology at work; volume 4 ISBN: 9781800738829 (hardback) ISBN: 9781800738836 (ebook).","authors":"Genevieve Soucek","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145908387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Money, Rank and the Frailty of Authority: Schurtz’s World and Ours. An Outline of the Origins of Money By Heinrich Schurtz. Translated and Annotated and With an Introduction by Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt (eds.), HAU Books, London. 2024. 274 pp. ISBN: 9781914363078 [paperback]; ISBN: 9781914363276 [PDF]; ISBN: 9781914363283 [e-book].","authors":"Bill Maurer","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145847247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. By Maron E. Greenleaf, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Paper $27.95; Hardcover $104.95. Pages: 304; Illustrations: 21 illustrations; Published: November 2024. Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-3108-6 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4780-2685-3 / eISBN: 978-1-4780-6007-9.","authors":"Eduardo Romero Dianderas","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145844760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women's role in fisheries has generally been underrecognized, both in science and in society. Engaging with anthropological and interdisciplinary literature on women in fisheries, as well as discussions about gender perspectives in studies of political economy, this article explores how women in the Spanish fishery sector are organizing and strategizing to rectify their historically marginalized position and improve their social and economic rights. Drawing on fieldwork with the Spanish National Association for Women in Fisheries and in fishing communities in northwestern/northern Spain, I explore how the historical insertion of women into fisheries has relegated them to an economically, socially, politically, and symbolically inferior subject position. Furthermore, I examine how this historical marginalization is reproduced, and contested, in a context where public authorities are recognizing and supporting fisherwomen's organizations. The article foregrounds the composite challenges that women face as they endeavor to strengthen and legitimate themselves as fishery workers and how state institutions and legislation at times pose further barriers to their struggles. The analysis thus illuminates how state support is not a panacea for empowering female fishers but rather only a first step toward addressing the compound obstacles to gender equality in the sector.
{"title":"Defiant Women of the Sea: Challenging the Gendering of the Spanish Fishery Sector","authors":"Iselin Åsedotter Strønen","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70025","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Women's role in fisheries has generally been underrecognized, both in science and in society. Engaging with anthropological and interdisciplinary literature on women in fisheries, as well as discussions about gender perspectives in studies of political economy, this article explores how women in the Spanish fishery sector are organizing and strategizing to rectify their historically marginalized position and improve their social and economic rights. Drawing on fieldwork with the Spanish National Association for Women in Fisheries and in fishing communities in northwestern/northern Spain, I explore how the historical insertion of women into fisheries has relegated them to an economically, socially, politically, and symbolically inferior subject position. Furthermore, I examine how this historical marginalization is reproduced, and contested, in a context where public authorities are recognizing and supporting fisherwomen's organizations. The article foregrounds the composite challenges that women face as they endeavor to strengthen and legitimate themselves as fishery workers and how state institutions and legislation at times pose further barriers to their struggles. The analysis thus illuminates how state support is not a panacea for empowering female fishers but rather only a first step toward addressing the compound obstacles to gender equality in the sector.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145812762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Disillusioned by decades of financial discrimination, from the closing of bank accounts to banning by payment processors and exclusion from mortgages, LLCs, and lines of credit, sex workers find themselves in need of an alternative means of transaction. One possible alternative is cryptocurrency, where a shared sense of distrust in financial institutions has created an alliance between two industries seeking financial autonomy and a way around financial exclusion. For many blockchain developers, the goal is trustlessness: the ability of a financial system to operate free of actors whose actions cannot be foreseen or controlled. However, even the sex workers implementing blockchain technology remain skeptical of trustlessness, particularly any system's or application's ability to sustain autonomy from the economic regulations that have impacted their livelihood. Building on ethnographic data, the article explores the analytic utility of trust for understanding the contradictions that inhere in illiberal economies and offers the conceptual framework of chronotopes of currency, an approach to monetary circulation that considers temporal and spatial scalability.
{"title":"Trust in the Trustless: Chronotopes of Currency in Adult Industry Crypto","authors":"Esra Soraya Padgett","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Disillusioned by decades of financial discrimination, from the closing of bank accounts to banning by payment processors and exclusion from mortgages, LLCs, and lines of credit, sex workers find themselves in need of an alternative means of transaction. One possible alternative is cryptocurrency, where a shared sense of distrust in financial institutions has created an alliance between two industries seeking financial autonomy and a way around financial exclusion. For many blockchain developers, the goal is <i>trustlessness</i>: the ability of a financial system to operate free of actors whose actions cannot be foreseen or controlled. However, even the sex workers implementing blockchain technology remain skeptical of trustlessness, particularly any system's or application's ability to sustain autonomy from the economic regulations that have impacted their livelihood. Building on ethnographic data, the article explores the analytic utility of <i>trust</i> for understanding the contradictions that inhere in illiberal economies and offers the conceptual framework of <i>chronotopes of currency</i>, an approach to monetary circulation that considers temporal and spatial scalability.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145808058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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