Mergers & Acquisitions

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  • SEA’s podcast, Mergers and Acquisitions demonstrates how anthropological and other perspectives can enhance and complicate understandings of economic life and contemporary events. Mergers and Acquisitions hosts interviews with leading economic anthropologists, provides reflection pieces on economic transformations and problems, and serves as a vehicle for new and established scholars to connect with each other. Recognizing that the best ideas and insights are rarely generated alone, Mergers and Acquisitions offers a collective mind-hive for furthering the study of economic life.
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  • Land Reform Assemblages: A Conversation with Dr. Tania Li

    Land Reform Assemblages: A Conversation with Dr. Tania Li
    Sep 15 2024
    In this conversation, Dr. Tania Li talks to us about her long-standing ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia. It focuses on assemblages of land reform – who is included and who is excluded, the history of land reform movements in Indonesia, and the implications of such assemblages. In particular, Dr. Li talks about the capitalist relations that emerge when indigenous highlanders self-organize to institute property rights. We see that it is not as straightforward as conventional neoliberal narratives suggest. Today’s guest is Dr. Tania Li, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. After her early research in Singapore, she has dedicated much of her career to researching land, labor, capitalism, development, politics and indigeneity in Indonesia. She has written about the rise of Indonesia’s indigenous peoples’ movement, land reform, rural class formation, struggles over the forests and conservation, community resource management, state-organized resettlement and the problems faced by people who are pushed off the land in contexts where they have little or no access to waged employment, and more. Her most recent book, Plantation Life (2021), co-authored with Pujo Semedi, examines the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia; the book theorizes the notion of “corporate occupation” to underscore how massive forms of capitalist production and control over the palm oil industry replicate colonial-style relations that undermine citizenship. Her book Land’s End (2014) draws on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia and offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. This is the book that inspired the topic for this episode, so we’ll be digging into this more in a moment. Some of her other books include The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (2007) which incidentally was a huge inspiration for my own journey into anthropology, her book Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (2011), co-authored with Derek Hall and Paul Hirsch, and Transforming the Indonesian Uplands: Marginality, Power, and Production (1999). Her scholarship engages interdisciplinarily with geography, philosophy, religion, politics, and much more. I’m delighted but also honored to be able to interview her for this episode, and I know there will be more to talk about than we have time for, so let’s get started. Links: https://www.taniali.org/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066150.2021.1890718 https://www.taniali.org/papers/what-is-land-assembling-a-resource-for-global-investment .player4952 .plyr__controls, .player4952 .StampAudioPlayerSkin{ border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden; } .player4952{ margin: 0 auto; } .player4952 .plyr__controls .plyr__controls { border-radius: none; overflow: visible; } .skin_default .player4952 .plyr__controls { overflow: visible; } Your browser does not support the audio element.
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    44 m
  • Moral Economies of Care in the (post) COVID Classroom, Episode 3: A Conversation with Jenny Hewitt, Dinah Rajak, and Sarah-Jane Phelan

    Moral Economies of Care in the (post) COVID Classroom, Episode 3: A Conversation with Jenny Hewitt, Dinah Rajak, and Sarah-Jane Phelan
    Sep 9 2024
    Why are all our teachers quitting? From 2021 to 2022, straight after the pandemic 40,000 teachers in England left the profession before retirement, the highest number in a decade. Figures from the Department of Education also show unfilled teacher vacancies were at a record high and sick days taken were up 50 percent on pre-pandemic levels. But why? In this three-part podcast we will hear true accounts from staff on the front line spoken at the most frightening time of their careers. To maintain the anonymity of the people and the schools included in this research, the excerpts you will hear have been re-recorded with other people’s voices, but these are their words and their stories. In the first two episodes of this podcast, we explored how and when the research was conducted and what that research revealed. In this final episode we highlight four key areas that contribute to low teacher retention levels and examine the impact of how teachers were seen, purely as a source of labour, not as people going through the same crisis. We end with a discussion on what needs to change, both at a policy level and generally in attitudes and expectations of teachers. We would like to sincerely thank all the teaching staff who took on this project during the most stressful time of their careers. We hope their voices have been heard. Host: Judith Koch Interviewees: Dr. Dinah Rajak, Dr. Sarah-Jane Phelan and Dr. Jenny Hewitt Dr. Sarah-Jane Phelan Dr. Jenny Hewitt Dr. Dinah Rajak Producer: Elisa Kennedy and Judith Koch Music: Thanks to Universfield and Ashot Danielyan for the use of their music from Pixabay SFX – Freesound, Pixabay Newsclips – BBC, GB News, Sky .player4943 .plyr__controls, .player4943 .StampAudioPlayerSkin{ border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden; } .player4943{ margin: 0 auto; } .player4943 .plyr__controls .plyr__controls { border-radius: none; overflow: visible; } .skin_default .player4943 .plyr__controls { overflow: visible; } Your browser does not support the audio element.
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    21 m
  • Moral Economies of Care in the (post) COVID Classroom, Episode 2: A Conversation with Jenny Hewitt, Dinah Rajak, and Sarah-Jane Phelan

    Moral Economies of Care in the (post) COVID Classroom, Episode 2: A Conversation with Jenny Hewitt, Dinah Rajak, and Sarah-Jane Phelan
    Aug 1 2024
    Why are all our teachers quitting? From 2021 to 2022, straight after the pandemic 40,000 teachers in England left the profession before retirement, the highest number in a decade. Figures from the Department of Education also show unfilled teacher vacancies were at a record high and sick days taken were up 50 percent on pre-pandemic levels. But why? Trust, Risk and Responsibilisation. These are the main findings that emerged from research conducted during the pandemic via audio diaries. Primary school teachers were asked to record their everyday experiences into an MP3 player allowing them to express whatever concerns or observations they had, whenever they wanted. The result is a first-hand account of life as a primary school teacher on the front line. In this three part podcast we will hear what their lives were like at the time, the pressures they were under and what they personally sacrificed to do the job. The findings of the research showed just how these three key areas contributed to the low rate of teacher retention, then and now. In order to maintain the anonymity of the people and the schools included in this research, the excerpts you hear have been re-recorded with other people’s voices, but these are their words and their stories. Hosted by Judith Koch, a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of International Relations at Sussex University, she will be speaking to Dr. Dinah Rajak, Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, Dr. Sarah-Jane Phelan, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and Dr. Jenny Hewitt, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London who collaboratively designed and undertook this research. The first episode focused on the methodology used to conduct this research, exploring how audio-diaries accessed real-time insights on teaching staff’s own terms, and practically how this research was able to be done during the lockdowns. This episode delves into the findings of this research and identifies the three keys issues that impacted hugely on how teachers did their jobs and still do – Trust, Risk and Responsibilisation. The final episode will look at future implications and policy recommendations. Host: Judith Koch Interviewees: Dr. Dinah Rajak, Dr. Sarah-Jane Phelan and Dr. Jenny Hewitt Dr. Sarah-Jane Phelan Dr. Jenny Hewitt Dr. Dinah Rajak Producers: Elisa Kennedy and Judith Koch .player4926 .plyr__controls, .player4926 .StampAudioPlayerSkin{ border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden; } .player4926{ margin: 0 auto; } .player4926 .plyr__controls .plyr__controls { border-radius: none; overflow: visible; } .skin_default .player4926 .plyr__controls { overflow: visible; } Your browser does not support the audio element.
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    22 m
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