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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, February 23, 2024 1:30 pm to 3:00
  pm \n Jackman Humanities Building 318 \n 170 St. George St., third floor
 . Toronto, ON. M5S 2M8 \n\nSpeakers \nChris Krupa \n\nDescription: \nThe 
 Latin American Studies program is proud to support two book seminars - aim
 ed mainly at graduate students and interested public - to discuss the rece
 nt publication of A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labour and Postcolonial Capit
 alism in Ecuador, by professor Chris Krupa (Anthropology, UTSC).The firs
 t seminar will focus on Finance and Historicity, will be hosted on Friday
 , January 26, 2024 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM in AP 246 (Anthropology Boardro
 om) with discussants: Gloria Pérez-Rivera (Mount Royal University) and Geo
 rge Mantzios (University of Toronto) The second seminar will focus on Inte
 riority and Labor, to be hosted on Friday, February 23, 2024 from 12:00
  to 1:30 PM at the JHB 318, with discussants: Elspeth Brown (UTM) and Sum
 ayya Kassamali (University of Toronto)To register, please visit the Googl
 e Forms registration page. About the BookWhen Ecuador's cut-flower industr
 y took off in the mid-1980s, it rode a wave of international credit peddl
 ing and currency speculation that would lead countries of the Global South
  into successive debt crises and northern financial firms to fortune and d
 ominion. By the start of the twenty-first century, as the Ecuadorian econ
 omy collapsed and its ties with international finance became strained, fl
 ower exporters rebuilt their businesses around the profitability of their 
 indigenous labor force, drawing local communities deeply into new plantat
 ion systems taking over the highlands.In A Feast of Flowers, Christopher 
 Krupa goes inside Ecuador's booming cut-flower industry to chronicle the w
 ays its capitalist pioneers built a booming export industry around a racia
 l ideology, turning indigenous people's purported differences into resour
 ces for industrial expansion. At the core of this racial system is a belie
 f, central to postcolonial science and politics in Ecuador, in capitalis
 m's unique capacity to change people's racial identity and to liberate opp
 ressed populations from racial subordination. Krupa shows how such views n
 ot only guide how indigenous people are today incorporated into demanding 
 labor systems in Ecuador's new export plantations, but also how indigenou
 s minds and bodies became sites of study and intervention by scientists, 
 politicians, and economic planners throughout the last century, all look
 ing to change indigenous people in some way.Combining nearly two decades o
 f ethnographic and historical research, A Feast of Flowers shows how aggr
 essive capitalist expansion in postcolonial contexts may revive longstandi
 ng intersections between race and economy to facilitate new modes of dispo
 ssession under the guise of humanitarian intervention.- from the publisher
 . To learn more, including where to purchase, visit the University of Pe
 \nsylvania Press website. \n\nContact Information: \n Jesook Song jesook.s
 ong@utoronto.ca Department of Spanish & Portuguese \n\nSponsors \nDepartme
 nt of Anthropology, Centre for Ethnography at UTSC, Latin American Studi
 es, Ethnography Lab \n170 St. George St., third floor. Toronto, ON. M5S
  2M8 \n\nCategories \n Training and Workshops \n\nAudiences \n Latin Ameri
 can Studies
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LOCATION:170 St. George St., third floor. Toronto, ON. M5S 2M8
SUMMARY:A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labour, and Postcolonial Capitalism in 
 Ecuador.
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