Global Flows and the complexities of modernity

1. The Other Side of Globalization (James Ferguson article)
    The Zambian Copperbelt
        -the copper boom in the 1970s; copper connectivity
        -modernist view of development
        -1990s: IMF-mandated structural adjustment
        -de-industrialization, urban-rural migration, and the end of development
        -return to shifting cultivation; relative success of the lambwaza: flexible specialization
        -betrayal of promises of development


from Kroeber (1923) Anthropology
 

2. Moor Better Blues: Rai and Rap in France and Algeria (Gross, McMurray, and Swedenburg article)
    -Algeria: Islam and the West; the French connection
    -rai as counter-culture music, began in 1920s, mix of Berber, Algerian, Spanish and other musics
    -repressed after 1962 revolution; then in late 1970s coopted by modernizing state
    -Cheb Khaled - the Elvis of Rai
            http://www.angelfire.com/al/alyafaei/chebkhaled.html
            1992 crossover hit Didi  (or realplayer: http://artists.iuma.com/site-bin/ramgen.ram?aid=79034&sid=286136)
            sings of women, drinking, hard times
    -early 1980s rai in Paris: mix with hip-hop styles and diaspora youth culture
    -consumed as World Music in the West, and as an emblem of resistance

3. Localization and Commodification of Culture (Friedman article)
    a) les sapeurs of the Congo (Brazzaville) (map)
            -age-grade societies based around fashion; Société des Ambianceurs et Personnes Elégantes (La SAPE)
            -ready-to-wear and haute couture
           

    -sape and not flâneur: authentic not dandy

    b) Ainu of Japan
        -marketing their identity to a hostile society
        -Japanese notions of in- and out-groups
        -Ainu schools, restaurants, festivals

    c) Hawaiians
        -rejection of commodification of identity
        -anti-tourist
        -maintain identity by rejecting the system of representation