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SUMMARY:The Weight of Waiting: Aluminum Pans\, Contemporary Coloniality and
  Porter Labor in Ghana
DESCRIPTION:AbstractThis presentation examines aluminum pans as a prostheti
 c of infrastructure and intimacy in Ghana’s market landscapes. Drawing o
 n research from her recently published book\, Headstrong: Women Porters\, 
 Blackness\, and Modernity in Accra\, Bowles explains how porter work is go
 verned by feminized regimes of obligation\, patience\, and care. Centering
  the everyday use of aluminum pans and the scientific history of aluminum\
 , this lecture traces how an ordinary object can mediate power relationshi
 ps between traders and the state\, facilitate modes of protection and mutu
 ality among workers\, and re-enact colonial legacies of racial capitalism 
 and uneven accumulation. Bowles also explores how intimacy functions as et
 hnographic method that reveals how porter work is a prototype of the globa
 l gig economy that animates the racial logics of coloniality and the impro
 visational strategies of precarious workers.\\r\\nBioLaurian Bowles is Ass
 ociate Professor of Anthropology at the Davidson College. She is a cultura
 l and visual anthropologist who researches\, writes and teaches about soci
 al mobility and the visual economies of women’s labor in Ghana and the A
 frican Diaspora.
X-ALT-DESC:<p><strong>Abstract</strong><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-c
 5148af7-7fff-48bd-42af-ff2fd54ccb48">This presentation examines aluminum p
 ans as a prosthetic of infrastructure and intimacy in Ghana’s market lan
 dscapes. Drawing on research from her recently published book\, </span><i>
 Headstrong: Women Porters\, Blackness\, and Modernity in Accra</i>\, Bowle
 s explains how porter work is governed by feminized regimes of obligation\
 , patience\, and care. Centering the everyday use of aluminum pans and the
  scientific history of aluminum\, this lecture traces how an ordinary obje
 ct can mediate power relationships between traders and the state\, facilit
 ate modes of protection and mutuality among workers\, and re-enact colonia
 l legacies of racial capitalism and uneven accumulation. Bowles also explo
 res how intimacy functions as ethnographic method that reveals how porter 
 work is a prototype of the global gig economy that animates the racial log
 ics of coloniality and the improvisational strategies of precarious worker
 s.</p>\n<p><strong>Bio</strong><br />Laurian Bowles is Associate Professor
  of Anthropology at the Davidson College. She is a cultural and visual ant
 hropologist who researches\, writes and teaches about social mobility and 
 the visual economies of women’s labor in Ghana and the African Diaspora.
 </p>
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