Walsh's Made in Madagascar
Made in Madagascar: Sapphires, Ecotourism, and the Global Bazaar
by Andrew Walsh
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speculate思索
bazaar市场
vessel船,容器
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Google madagascar
-> Cartoon
-> Travel tourism
-> news and "facts"
-> species, conservations
-> as "natural paradise"
-> biodiversity
-> threatened evironment
international possession
world monument, wildlife, biodiversity
political economy
global interests articulated in terms of outsider interests
introduces external actors
save these resources for the good of this world
consumed
social needs historical rights criminalized through global discourse
creations of parks/reservations
in the process
redefined as containing only protected reserves where in fact they also contain people
in conjunction of the government
protecting the flora and ferna and not much attention on people
people in madagascar not accomodated
global rankings of MAD: 147 of 160, below liberia
what is like of a citizen in this country
the lived experience of human being in this "natural paradise"
athro participation in globalization
cultural anthro- get what? -> what the living experiences of human in the background of gobalization
forms of representation
not removing himself of this
conscious of the fact
taking people seriously
not everybody on the face of Mad
"partial truth" not claiming to be encapsulating in terms of sociology in MAD
very important choices about particular domains/ communities /sites that he is engaging with
then look at the title "sapphires trade" "ecotourism"
two main domains
who he talked to what he studied
this methodology
not only extracted site "ankarana"
but also the export
Thailand, NY..
story of transformation and meaning of stuff in the earth
that people talked about given their children one or town generations before(sapphire)
being recreated in the global market
grounding this story in xxx perspective
people of Ankarana
how they participate in this commodity chain?
some points:
reading this book
for rationalizing what seems to be very disperate industry
division of labor of sapphire trade
in ecotourism industry
miners themselves
"class level division"
miners - the bottom
merchants, traders, labor contractors
local rulers
state government
global actors, NGO,WWF
piles of rock converted into monetary ..
who controls the process?
global market
"bazaar economy"
diff of bazaar and capital market?
local rulers political embeded in global xx.
economic processes
political economy in madagascar
globalization
to describe a commodity chain
qualitative data
quantifying issues might tell us
percentage
he think is important
taking people seriously
commodification of culture stuff
tourism, T-shirts
e.g. Salem in MASS
commodity
various stages of its transformation
chili coffee bean sugar cane
history of rubber
in talking about that history
historical issues and political issues
concept of plantation
like cotton
where is grown, labor? landowners?
why is tea grown in the northern region of India?
How long has been?
Who first planted?
sugar cane plantation in Carribean
not local production system
but colonial importations in areas where the environment and labor system
in the land ..
for export
not indigenous identification locally significant industries
but story of the French/English domination of local lands in growing conditions that not presented in Europe
slave labor
that's the history
of commodity chains
start in colonial and post colonial settings
and plantation is global phenomenon farmer owned user petion
products
residual of colonialism
colonial states of production
local division of labor manifest local forms knowledge manifest in global commodity chains
Sweetness and power
during peirod of conquest
16- 18 th centuies tell the story of transformations in the supplier side
coffee chocolate sugar salt
selection process of major themes, args, data that support that arg
why is this arg particular the important one
My summary
chap2
chaotic place
risking and daring
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