Reminder: Anthropology Silver Medal lecture, March 26: The unbearable lightness of trust

[Goetz Hoeppe]

Dear All,


This is just a friendly reminder of our Anthropology Silver Medal Guest Lecture tomorrow, Tuesday, March 26, at 5pm in EV3 - 1408. We will have a reception in the PAS lounge after the talk.


Best wishes,


Goetz



The Unbearable Lightness of Trust:

Mobilities, trade networks and the life-world of Indian export agents in China


Filippo Osella
Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Sussex (UK)

The talk explores the life-world and practices of Indian export agents in China, suggesting that whilst they seek to cultivate networks of friendships and mutual trust with their Chinese suppliers and Indian clients, trust is always in short supply.  Moreover, trust is a complex and contradictory resource which in itself it does not necessarily ensure economic gains. The talk will argue that the nature of export business is such as to require the careful management of mistrust and suspicion within a rhetoric or aesthetic of mutual trust, in which affective relations and economic interests are simultaneously conflated and separated from each other.


Filippo Osella's books include Islam, Politics and Anthropology (with B. Soares, 2010), Islamic Reforms in South Asia (with C. Osella, 2012) and Religion and the Morality of the Market (with D. Rudnyckyj, 2017). His current research focuses on trading networks between China, India and West Asia. He has recently begun research on artisanal fishers’ attitudes towards risk in Kerala (India).


Götz Hoeppe, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of Waterloo
PAS 2018
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada


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