Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 16th March 2015 - Professor Harri Englund - University of Cambridge - “Forget the Poor: Radio Kinship and Exploited Labour in Zambia”
| Dates: | 16 March 2015 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Professor Harri Englund |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 16th March 2015
Professor Harri Englund - University of Cambridge
“Forget the Poor: Radio Kinship and Exploited Labour in Zambia”
With a focus on a labour dispute between Zambian workers and Chinese management, this seminar examines radio kinship in the context of abundant labour and scarce opportunities to be gainfully employed in Chipata in Zambia's Eastern Province. Gogo Breeze, a popular radio personality on Breeze FM, responds to his listeners’ frequent evocations of poverty by refusing to consider them as members of the generic poor.
Instead, he deploys idioms of kinship by which his status as the listeners’ grandfather on air assigns to himself moral authority that is both intimate and infallible. The radio grandfather responded to the workers' grievances by visiting the provincial Labour Office and by broadcasting a richly allusive story about exploitation. As one modality of mutual dependence, radio kinship offered a frame for making claims that was compatible with what the workers demanded.
2.016/2.017
Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
3:15 – 5:00pm
(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 3:00pm)
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker
Professor Harri Englund
Role: Seminar Speaker
Organisation: University of Cambridge
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