Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2025, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal
Wednesday Seminar (Sharryn Kasmir)
Reconsidering Politics in the U.S. Rust Belt. An Anthropological of Labor Perspective from Pennsylvania.
Übungsraum (Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie)
Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG, 4. Stock), 1010 Wien
Antrittsvorlesung, Public Lecture, Vortrag
In this talk I outline the key concepts and theoretical framework of the anthropology of labor. I discuss my research on left-liberal social movement groups in a U.S. Rust Belt region in the state of Pennsylvania, where I did fieldwork from 2018-2021. Using the lens of the anthropology of labor, I interpret events there, and I reconsider Rust Belt politics.
Pennsylvania, and particularly its deindustrialized regions, are key battlegrounds in the U.S. national political landscape, where questions of labor and class are paramount. I disrupt the familiar Rust Belt narrative, which begins with deindustrialization, job loss, and social dislocation, and ends with the right-wing turn of white working classes. Instead, I center the organizing efforts of the left-liberal groups that are active in the area. I show how those groups attempt more expansive labor formations that include marginalized, racialized populations who have traditionally not been part of how the Rust Belt labor story is understood. In so doing, they may point towards seeds of resistance in a deindustrialized region.
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Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Kontakt
Hanna Vietze
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
+431427749565
hanna.vietze@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Dienstag, 03. Juni 2025, 12:15
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025, 08:44