Inside the Economy of Appearances
By A. Tsing. Globalization, 2000
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ndonesia’s profile in the international imagination has completely changed. From the top of what was called a “miracle,” Indonesia fell to the bottom of a “crisis.” In the middle of what was portrayed as a timeless political regime, students demonstrated, and, suddenly, the regime was gone. So recently an exemplar of the promise of globalization, overnight Indonesia became the case study of globalization’s failures. The speed of these changes takes one’s breath away—and raises important questions about globalization. Under what circumstances are boom and bust intimately related to each other? If the same economic policies can produce both in quick succession, might deregulation and cronyism sometimes name the same thing—but from different moments of investor confidence? Such questions run against the grain of economic expertise about globalization, with its discrimination between good and bad kinds of capitalism and policy. Yet the whiggish acrobatics necessary to show how those very economies celebrated as miracles were simultaneously lurking crises hardly seem to tell the whole story. A less pious attitude toward the market may be necessary to consider the specificities of those political economies, like that of Suharto’s Indonesia, brought into being together with international finance.1
Subfields: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- Greening extractivism: Environmental discourses and resource governance in the ‘Lithium Triangle’ (2021, background): “The proximities and inter-linkages between state and financial discourses echoes the work of scholars suggesting that discursive strategies in extraction reflect the performativity of capital in the economy of spectacles and appearances (Tsing, 2000).”