Work and Social Relations in the Capitalocene

Conference: Social Relations of the Capitalocene
From 23 to 25 January 2019 a conference with the title “Social Relations of the Capitalocene: Work, Value(s) and Personhood Below the Commanding Heights” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.The conference centred around presentations of case studies that look at social relations within enterprises and the value orientation of entrepreneurs worldwide.

Conference: Social Relations of the Capitalocene
From 23 to 25 January 2019 a conference with the title “Social Relations of the Capitalocene: Work, Value(s) and Personhood Below the Commanding Heights” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.The conference centred around presentations of case studies that look at social relations within enterprises and the value orientation of entrepreneurs worldwide.
Chris Hann, Director of the Department "Reslience and Transformation in Eurasia' welcomes the participants of the conference "Social Relations of the Capitalocene" ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Gareth Dale, Brunel University, London ■ Titel of his Keynote Lecture: Building Infinity in the Capitalocene: Linear time, non-linear nature, and the laws of value ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Lale Yalçın-Heckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Chair of Session I ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Andrew L. Ofstehage, Cornell University, New York ■ Title of his talk: The Emergence of Transnational Family Farmers: Mitigating farming crisis through commodity frontier expansion ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Courtney Lewis, University of South Carolina, Columbia ■ Title of her talk: Families, Ideologies, and Casinos: Transformations of Eastern band of Cherokee Indians small business practices ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant ■ Title of her talk: Resistance Retail in the Capitalocene: Social and theological negotiations within Ten Thousand Villages ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Mark Harvey, University of Essex ■ Discussant in Session I ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Kirsten Endres (centre), Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Chair of Session II ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Sylvia Terpe, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of her talk: Caring for Oneself: The moral meaning of being self-employed in East Germany ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Anne-Erita V. Berta, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of her talk: Succession: The transmission of values among petty entrepreneurs in a capitalist, social democratic welfare state ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Rachel Smith, University of Cambridge ■ Discussant in Session II ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Session III ■ from left: Ceren G. Deniz, Daria Tereshina, Ivan Rajkovic, Chair ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Daria Tereshina, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of her talk: The Value of Family Ties: Creating trust and loyalty in Russian private firms ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Ceren G. Deniz, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of her talk: Flexible Labour Regimes in Provincial Turkey: Values that constitute the realm of consent and coercion ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Ayşe Buğra, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul ■ Keynote Lecture: Revisiting Polanyi’s Concept of Disembeddedness in Past and Present Modes of Economic Globalization ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Chair of Session IV ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Tom Cliff, The Australian National University, Canberra ■ Title of his talk: Consolidating Virtue: How private enterprise manages being governed in rural China ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Laura Hornig, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of her talk: The “Good” Employer: Mutual expectations amidst changing employment situations in Pathein, Myanmar ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Erik Bähre (right), Leiden University ■ Discussant in Session IV ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Session V ■ from left: Alejandra González Jiménez, Ivan Rajkovic, Sylvia Terpe, chair ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Ivan Rajkovic, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of his talk: ‘Our Second Home’: Will for labour and ambivalent maternalisms in a Serbian car plant ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Alejandra González Jiménez, University of Toronto, Toronto ■ Title of her talk: ‘The Volkswagen Family’: Corporate belongings and subject formation in the NAFTA era ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Don Kalb, University of Bergen and University of Utrecht ■ Discussant in Session V ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Session VI ■ from left: Gareth Dale, discussant, Leilah Vevaina , Sudeshna Chaki, Rachel Smith, chair ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Leilah Vevaina, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen ■ Title of her talk: The Trust and the Immortality of the ‘Unincorporate Body’ ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Sudeshna Chaki, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of her talk: Emergence of Small Scale Industrialists in Palghar: Kinship, state and community ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Chris Hann (left), Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, introduces final keynote speaker Mark Harvey ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Mark Harvey, University of Essex ■ Title of his keynote: The Sociogenesis of Climate Change: Food, agriculture and trajectories of production and consumption in China and Brazil ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
The Realeurasia Group ■ from left: Lale Yalçın-Heckmann ■ Sudeshna Chaki ■ Daria Tereshina ■ Ivan Rajkovic ■ Ceren G. Deniz ■ Laura Hornig ■ Anne-Erita V. Berta ■ Sylvia Terpe ■ Chris Hann ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology