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Angelique Haugerud's research specialties include cultural politics, globalization, democracy, ethnicity, social movements, satirical activism, neoliberalism, politics of development, political and economic anthropology, political ecology, and land tenure. During the past two decades she has conducted a half-dozen years of research in East and Central Africa. Recently, she has undertaken ethnographic research on the cultural politics of wealth and satirical activism in the United States. She is author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya (Cambridge University Press, 1995); co-editor (with Marc Edelman) of The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005); and co-editor (with M. Priscilla Stone and Peter D. Little) of Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).

Professor Haugerud has been awarded research fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation, among others. She was editor of the scholarly journal Africa Today (1996-1998) and has been elected to the executive boards of the American Anthropological Association's General Anthropology Division (2002-2005), the African Studies Association (1999-2002), the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (1997-2000), and the Society for Economic Anthropology (1992-1995). She has been on the editorial board of Africa Contemporary Record, African Studies Quarterly, and Signs, and she has served on the Faculty Senate at Rutgers University (2000-2003) and the Faculty Council (2005).

Two research projects and books in preparation include (1) Beyond Market Myths: A Long-Term Study of Wealth, Culture, and Power in Kenya, and (2) The Comedy of Wealth. The first of these, which is based on years of field research in East Africa, explores how people in Kenya have coped with increasing economic and political volatility (e.g., state incapacity and unpredictability, collapse of international coffee prices, and land tenure insecurity). Families included in this study include both small-scale coffee farmers in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, and migrants from those families who have moved to Nairobi. The study probes the long-term personal experiences and everyday lives of individuals who animate the abstractions we debate as globalization, economic neoliberalism, migration, land tenure reform, social and economic differentiation, democratization, and modernity.

The second project, which focuses on the cultural politics of wealth and satirical activism in the United States, includes ethnographic research on globalization activists and on a satirical grassroots political network whose members critique growing economic inequality in the United States by spoofing the ultra-rich. This study explores American discomfort with class, satire as political critique, the subjectivities and emotions of protest, political agency, protest as performance, histories and internal dynamics of particular groups, complementarity of cyber-networking and social connectivity as modes of organizing, media images of protest, innovation in protest tactics, media and official representations of dissent, and the effects of media coverage on activists' strategies and internal group dynamics.  

In Blackwell Publishers series, Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism, Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, editors, 2005.

From the back cover of The Anthropology of Development and Globalization (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, November 2004):

"Anthropology is nothing unless also concerned with contemporary social and political questions. Edelman and Haugerud's set of readings and wide-ranging, authoritative introduction will be indispensable to scholars and practitioners alike." --Ralph Grillo, University of Sussex

"Enhanced by the editors' knowledgeable introduction, which draws attention to anthropology's silences as well as engagements with classical and contemporary political economy, this comprehensive anthology will be of great value to scholars, students, and practitioners." --Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University

Development - is it a powerful vision of a better life for the half of the world's population who subsist on two dollars a day? Or is it a failed Enlightenment legacy, an oppressive "master narrative"? Such questions inspire a field newly animated by theories of globalization, modernity, cultural hybridity, and transnationalism. The Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from its classical origins to today's debates about the "magic" of the free market.

The volume is framed by an encyclopedic introduction that will prove indispensable to students and experts alike. Subsequent readings range from classics by Weber and Marx and Engels to contemporary works on the politics of development knowledge, consumption, environment, gender, international NGO networks, the International Monetary Fund, campaigns t o reform the World Bank, the collapse of socialism, and the limits of "post-developmentalism." Explicitly designed for teaching, The Anthropology of Development and Globalization fills a crucial gap; no available text so richly mingles historical, cultural, political, and economic perspectives on development and globalization, and none captures such a wide variety of theoretical approaches and topics as does this exciting collection.

Ordering Information available from Blackwell Publishing

The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

From the back cover of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya:

"An exceptionally rare and powerful combination of analytical sophistication joined to a scrupulous, historically-grounded account of politics, social practice, and material life."
--James C. Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, Yale University

"A model of clarity... Only rarely is anthropological knowledge as skillfully grounded in transdisciplinary theory."
--Joan Vincent, American Anthropologist

"Enormously stimulating...an innovative and important study of Kenyan politics combining anthropology, history and political economy to produce a suggestive and often orginal account of the relationship between state and society, high and deep politics, political culture and institutions, and the accumulation of wealth and poverty...This is a book that should stimulate discussion and further research in Kenya and elsewhere."
--Bruce Berman, Journal of African History

 Commodities and Globalization explores topics such as how an object is transformed from curiosity or rare luxury to common necessity; the cultural categories and political and economic relationships embodied in commodities; and the effeLcts of global capital in agricultural commodity chains. This volume contributes to a globalization literature that had often been less attentive to the particular circumstances of the farmers, herders, popular musicians, artists, traders, and others whose activities power global flows.

SELECTED RECENT ARTICLES, CHAPTERS

2005 'Leave No Billionaire Behind': Political Dissent as Performance Parody. Princeton Report on Knowledge, vol. 1, no. 1.
http://www.princeton.edu/prok/issues/1-1/inventions.xml

2005 Globalization and Thomas Friedman. In Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong, Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, eds., pp. 102-120. Berkeley: University of California Press. For more information on this book, see http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10323.html.

2004 "The Art of Protest," Anthropology News, vol. 45, no. 8 (November).

2004 Development. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, David Nugent and Joan Vincent, eds., pp. 86-106. Oxford: Blackwell. Click here for a list of contributors to this volume, editorial reviews by Marshall Sahlins and Michael Burawoy, and ordering information. Click here for a list of contributors to this volume, editorial reviews by Marshall Sahlins and Michael Burawoy, and publication information.

2003 "Rethinking Boundaries," pp. 315-328, in Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India, K. Sivaramakrishnan and Arun Agrawal, editors. Stanford University Press.

2003 "The Disappearing Local: Rethinking Global-Local Connections," pp. 60-81, in Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debates, Ali Mirsepassi, Amrita Basu, and Frederick Weaver, editors. Syracuse University Press.

COURSES

Fall 2006

Anthropology of Africa (338)

Spring 2007

Research Design and Methods in Cultural Anthropology (506)

Wealth and Culture (303)

Spring 2008

Anthropology of Africa (338)

Anthropology of Politics (519)