Maison de la Paix - Genève, Room S5 Petal 1 (hybrid event)
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This event is part of the ANSO Tuesday Seminar Series.
The talk addresses how different kinds of value have defined and categorized older people during the ten years of crisis following 2008 and in the recent practices of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the valuation frameworks that have defined them are multiple and shifting. My aim is to present how different valuation scales of older citizens in Spain are connected to capital valorization processes and austerity policies. To this effect I will unravel the valuation/valorization articulations in four domains referring to: the public pension system; home as use value and asset; caring practices and infrastructures; and calculations of the value of life during the pandemic of COVID-19. These four domains together will help us understand how the production of different human values enables particular forms of capital accumulation.
Susana Narotzky is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. She studied at the University of Barcelona and at the New School for Social Research in New York, and obtained a M.A. degree in 1984 and a PhD in 1989. Recently she has been invited to be a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (School of Social Science), Princeton (2019-2020). She has been Invited Professor in the Labex TransferS, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2016 ) and Hallsworth Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester (2016). From 2013-2016 she was a Fellow of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. She has been awarded the ICREA-Academia five year Fellowship twice (2010-2015 and 2016-2021) by the Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Generalitat de Catalunya to support her research. She has served as scientific coordinator of the project “Models and their Effects on Development paths” (MEDEA) (2009-2012) 7th FP. In 1998 she founded the Study Group on Reciprocity (GER) at the University of Barcelona that she directed until 2015.
Her main research focus has been on the anthropology of work, with particular attention to unregulated production and care practices within and across generations. The recent global crisis has led her to investigate the articulation between folk models of the economy that inform practices at the micro sociological level, and expert models of the economy that frame policy, corporative and institutional behavior. Her work is inspired by theories of critical political economy, moral economies and feminist economics. She is former President of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) and has served as Secretary of the American Anthropological Association.