Sleight of hand economic nationalist strategies by recent administrations of the US and UK emphasizing the “freedom” of those selectively imagined as belonging to the nation while quietly but pivotally discouraging human mobility and encouraging elite capital mobility, are discussed in this article. The US and UK’s distinct but connected recent policies – Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) and Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategies -- are not viewed as exceptional, or unique to those specific administrations of each country, but as embedded within long-term, interconnected transnational racial capitalist projects. The sleights of hand promoting selective publics’ freedom are not only hypocritical but complex to see, especially with white-impaired lenses. Two interrelated technologies of power on which these economic nationalist strategies have relied, bordering and free zones, are examined ethnographically in this article, contributing to research on the complex, varied, and experience-inflected responses US and UK residents have to these policies.

In a time when many national governments are rhetorically, if not practically, turning away from global collaboration and emphasizing economic nationalisms, understood here as a plurality of historically and politically contextualized policies, the authors in this thematic issue explore the possible contributions of comparative ethnographic analyses of economic nationalisms to interdisciplinary, transnational analyses. In this introduction to the thematic section, the editors note the turn to economic nationalisms in the current context of global crises, review the literature on economic nationalisms, and illustrate the strong political and historical variations in economic nationalisms within even the same nation, using India as an example. The three ethnographic articles in this thematic section are discussed in relation to each other. They offer examples from Turkey, Italy, Guatemala and the U.S., with a shared focus on economic nationalisms and the reliance on the labor of transnational migrants displaced by war, land grabs, and climate change even as those vital contributors to national economies are denied cultural and national citizenship – an irony rendered all the more visible during the COVID-19 pandemic.

AbstractAs part of a set of articles dedicated to the memory of Rob Welch and focused on social and economic justice in Appalachia, this article focuses on economic justice and injustice through Kentucky’s living wage debate. Calls for economic justice and a living wage are set in a historical and national context, with a discussion of the very different logics framing notions of economic life and well-being. Examples are provided of inclusive work toward economic justice in Appalachian Kentucky.

This article argues that there is no typical Appalachian experience or community. There is more cultural diversity and global interchange in this region of the U.S. than appears in popular representations of “isolated” Appalachians, which are ironic because of the region’s having been so central to the global extractive economy for centuries. Some pedagogical resources are provided to encourage or contribute to a broader perspective on the possibilities and knowledge centered in rural communities, with Appalachian examples.

Anti-immigration or anti-immigrant legislation has been making its way through statehouses across the United States over the past two decades. This chapter demonstrates some ways to situate local anti-immigration legislation within that larger national context using the concepts and methods of anthropology. It then argues that anthropological perspectives can contribute to both academic and activist analyses of the most recent anti-immigrant legislation and that such analyses are particularly needed in southeastern US states like South Carolina, which has a rapidly growing new immigrant population from Latin America and other regions of the world. The chapter emerges from a long-term ethnographic research project on how individuals make sense of policies related to globalization, like the North American Free Trade Agreement, and anticipate the effects of those policies on their everyday lives. Lindsey Graham's legislative efforts on immigration succeeded only after the senator was told by his colleagues to focus on the need to secure the southern border.

You want what? Help locating the last authentic hillbillies for your reality TV show? Here's a book we recommend: Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, by Billings, Norman, and Ledford [2000]-a phone response my coworker Shane and I have given repeatedly.

This essay began as part of a session honoring Vincent Lyon-Callo's ethnography of governmentality and structural violence in the homeless sheltering industry, in which he worked in Massachusetts. This is a review of his book Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry, and also an application of Lyon-Callo's argument. He encourages attention to the neoliberal logic and structural conditions shaping understandings and experiences of homelessness. In this essay, I discuss visits with students (who have read his book) to homeless shelters in Columbia, South Carolina, and analyze a long-term debate in the city about where to locate a large service facility for the homeless. I argue that the national neoliberal and neoconservative policy of strengthening faith-based initiatives in providing public services ironically reduced the possibility of neoliberal governance of those services at the local level, as when business owners ask the city to reduce the visibility of homelessness in the commercial district.

Anthropology of Work ReviewVolume 32, Issue 1 p. 2-3 Worker Well-being: Uniting Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice Concerns in the Anthropology of Work Ann Kingsolver, Ann Kingsolver University of South CarolinaSearch for more papers by this author Ann Kingsolver, Ann Kingsolver University of South CarolinaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 June 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1417.2011.01051.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume32, Issue1July 2011Pages 2-3 RelatedInformation

The 2009 research project discussed here focused on regional experiences of global food insecurity, and linked students in South Carolina and Sri Lanka to explore a more affordable and inclusive means of transnational research collaboration. In 2008, there was a remarkable increase in food insecurity associated with the global economic crisis. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations estimated that the number of undernourished people in the world rose from 864 million to 967 million in just that one year. USAID (2009) reported that 37 countries were experiencing food insecurity at the national level, and that food prices had risen by 43 percent in 2008 alone. Catholic Relief Services (2008) estimated that the cost of basic staples in much of the Global South had tripled in just 18 months, and that the price of daily food requirements exceeded daily wages for many. There were food riots in nearly a dozen countries because of food costs doubling or more.

In a time of economic crisis, when unemployment and food insecurity have increased dramatically in South Carolina, is a living wage movement more or less likely? This article does not investigate this question ethnographically, but discusses the conditions for a living wage movement in this southern U.S. state, including the right-to-work legislation and logics that frame understandings and policies regarding employment and economic well-being in the state. Interpretive and political economic anthropological perspectives are employed in this analysis.

This article considers the question whether, in the face of rising indebtedness, there might be a social movement in the United States similar to El Barzon, a debtors' movement in Mexico particularly visible during and after the neoliberal financial crisis of 1994. The importance of middle-class consumer debt to the global economy (thus the powerful potential for debtors to organize) is mediated in the United States by increasing domestic surveillance and the links between neoliberal policy and neoconservative Christian logic in state administration. Historical, ethnographic, comparative, and collaborative possibilities for investigating social movements' potential to respond to increasing political and economic repression are discussed.

VoicesVolume 7, Issue 1 p. 15-15 Forthcoming Special Publication by AFA on Women and Globalization Nandini Gunewardena, Nandini Gunewardena UCLA (nandini@ucla.edu)Search for more papers by this authorAnn Kingsolver, Ann Kingsolver University of South Carolina-Columbia (AEKingso@gwm.sc.edu)Search for more papers by this author Nandini Gunewardena, Nandini Gunewardena UCLA (nandini@ucla.edu)Search for more papers by this authorAnn Kingsolver, Ann Kingsolver University of South Carolina-Columbia (AEKingso@gwm.sc.edu)Search for more papers by this author First published: 23 February 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-7423.2005.tb00023.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume7, Issue1April 2005Pages 15-15 RelatedInformation

Razing Appalachia. Sasha Waters, director. Sasha Waters (Room 135 Productions), producer. 55 min. Color, with b/w newsreel footage. PA: Bullfrog Films, 2003.

VoicesVolume 6, Issue 1 p. 23-26 Poverty on Purpose: Life with the Free Marketeers Dr. Ann Kingsolver, Dr. Ann Kingsolver The University of South CarolinaSearch for more papers by this author Dr. Ann Kingsolver, Dr. Ann Kingsolver The University of South CarolinaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1525/vo.2002.6.1.23AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume6, Issue1December 2002Pages 23-26 RelatedInformation