Reptiles such as this yellow-banded poison dart frog circulate on the black market. Photo by Adrian Pingstone via Wikimedia Commons.What do murder, microfinance, and black markets in reptiles have in common? They all featured as part of a panel called “Circulation in Times of Crisis” at the Australian Anthropology Society conference in Canberra from the 5th to 8th November. Convened by Heather Horst and Marta Rosales, this panel explored the relationships between flows and blockages of people, things, information, and media.First up, Jolynna Sinanan (UCL) talked about the effects of the global financial crisis on women working in garment factories in Cambodia. The garment sector comprises 16% of Cambodia’s GDP, and is an important employer of women, who make long, daily commutes on open trucks rather than run the risks of running their own businesses. Jolynna argued that their preference for wage labour is at odds with development programs’ encouragement of entrepreneurship as a path out of poverty. Crisis promotes a search for security[Read the rest of the article]: Circulation in crisisAuthor informationErin TaylorPost Doctoral Research Fellow, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon at Research Fellow, Digital Ethnography Research CentreErin originally studied fine art, but she defected to anthropology when she realised that she was far better at deploying a pen for writing than for drawing. She is a cultural anthropologist who is currently living in Lisbon, Portugal, where she has a full-time research position at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS).TwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedInOriginal article: Circulation in crisis©2013 Erin B. Taylor. All Rights Reserved.
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