The Farmer and "the Dane": The Genesis of Financial Capitalism in the Latvian Countryside
Спикер Dace Dzenovska
25 ноября / Zoom / 18.00
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This paper makes the argument that the struggles over the presence and practices of Danish farmers in Latvia render visible the formation of capitalist relations of production in a post-privatization era, as well as the financialization of agrarian capitalism driven by extractive accumulation rather than production. These operations are difficult to trace for ordinary people, largely because they do not have time for it. As put by Modris, a financial consultant , “very few people who walk on the ground see the whole field.” “Seeing the field” is a skill possessed by “the big players”—the investors. Most of the people I encountered during my fieldwork did not have this skill and recognized it. But they thought that they could develop a “good sense” of what the playing field looks like by paying attention to that which was visible—for example, cultivated, but unharvested fields—and using their reason and life experience to piece together the rest. I join my interlocutors in their attempts to piece together what financial capitalism looks like in the Latvian countryside and what the future holds.
О спикере
Dace Dzenovska is Associate Professor of the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford. She is the author of School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia (Cornell, 2018). Currently she is working on a European Research Council funded project Emptiness: Living Capitalism and Democracy After Postsocialism.
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