Petty Capitalists and Globalization: Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development

Contributors

Contributors Michael Blim is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Equality and Economy (forthcoming), Made in Italy: Small-Scale Industrialization and its Consequences (1990), and co-editor with Frances Rothstein of Anthropology and the Global Factory (1992). Hans Buechler is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. Judith-Maria Buechler is Professor of Anthropology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. They are authors of Manufacturing Against the Odds, and Contesting Agriculture. Hill Gates was born in Fort William, Ontario and received her degrees in Anthropology from Radcliffe College, Harvard University (BA), University of Hawaii (MA and PhD). She taught for twenty years at Central Michigan University, and retired as Professor Emerita to take up a Lectureship at Stanford University. She is the author of China’s Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism (1996, Cornell UP) and Looking for Chengdu (1999, Cornell UP). She presently divides her research time between a Taiwan/Netherlands Demographic Project and a book on women’s labor and footbinding to be called Hand and Foot. Simone Ghezzi is currently a contract researcher at the Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He received a Master of Arts (1996) and a Ph.D. (2002) in Anthropology from the University of Toronto. He was a Donner Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI (2003). He has carried out extensive fieldwork on informal economy, and on workshops in Lombardy, Northern Italy. He is currently writing a book on entrepreneur-workers and workshops in Lombardy. 307 Dr. Jinn-yuh Hsu is currently an associate professor in Geography at National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is an economic geographer who specializes in high-technology industries and regional development in late-industrializing countries, particularly Taiwan. Dr. Hsu has published a series of papers (in Chinese and English) on the labor market, technology learning, industrial organization and dynamic institutionalism of the Hsinchu Region and its connection with Silicon Valley. Currently he is conducting research on high technology industries in the triangle connection among Silicon Valley, Taiwan and Shanghai. B. Lynne Milgram is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada, and Adjunct Graduate Faculty (Anthropology), York University, Toronto. Her research on gender and development in the Philippines analyzes the cultural politics of social change with regard to fair trade, women’s entrepreneurial work in crafts, and microfinance initiatives. This research has been published in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal (2002), Human Organization (2001), Research in Economic Anthropology, (1999) and Museum Anthropology (1998). She has also co-edited, with Kimberly M. Grimes, Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Her current research explores Philippine women’s engagement in the global trade of secondhand clothing through trans-Asian commodity networks. Susana Narotzky is Profesora Titular de Antropologia at the Universitat de Barcelona. Among her recent publications are “New Directions in Economic Anthropology” (London, Pluto 1997) and “La Antropologia de los pueblos de España. Historia, cultura y lugar” (Barcelona, Icaria, 2001). With Gavin Smith, Narotzky is completing an historical ethnography on a regional economy in contemporary Spain. Donald M. Nonini is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of British Colonial Rule and the Resistance of the Malay Peasantry, 1900–1957 (New Haven: Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 1992), editor with Aihwa Ong of Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (New York: 308 Contributors Routledge, 1997), and the author of numerous articles on the cultural politics of Chinese ethnic identity and citizenship in Malaysia. He is currently completing a book entitled “Getting Through Life”: Classed and Gendered and The Cultural Politics of Chinese Identity in Malaysia. He is also the co-author with Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, et al. of If This is Democracy: Public Interests and Private Politics in A Neoliberal Age (under contract, New York University Press), a study of local politics, neoliberal government, and the effects of globalization in the United States. His most recent research deals with issues of nationality and citizenship among Chinese Indonesians who fled Indonesia for Australia in the wake of the...