Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

SEA’s podcast, Mergers and Acquisitions demonstrates how anthropological and other perspectives can enhance and complicate understandings of economic life and contemporary events. Mergers and Acquisitions hosts interviews with leading economic anthropologists, provides reflection pieces on economic transformations and problems, and serves as a vehicle for new and established scholars to connect with each other. Recognizing that the best ideas and insights are rarely generated alone, Mergers and Acquisitions offers a collective mind-hive for furthering the study of economic life.

Episodes

“Every Dollar Has Its Own Problem:” Navigating Multicurrency Zimbabwe: A conversation with Chris Vasantkumar

June 26, 2025 • 46 mins
In the final episode of “Currency Experiments & Value Conversions” Ferda Nur Demirci and Daromir Rudnyckyj discuss the 2023 article “’Every dollar has its own problem’: Discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multicurrency era Zimbabwe” with its author, Chris Vasantkumar, an anthropologist based at Macquarie University. The discussion addresses Zimbabwe’s complex monetary landscape, particularly during the “m...
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Gold Matters: Thinking with Gold in Finance and Extraction: A Conversation with Elizabeth Ferry

May 29, 2025 • 40 mins
This podcast discusses Professor Ferry’s book in progress, Gold Matters: Elemental Worldmaking in Finance and Mining.  The conversation addresses the enduring significance of gold in both mining and finance, despite its formal detachment from global currency systems since the end of the gold standard, in 1971. Hosted by Daromir Rudnyckyj and Ferda Demirci, the discussion explores how gold is both a powerful symbol and material thro...
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Carbon Banking, Climate Change, and the Future of Money: a conversation with Gustav Peebles

April 21, 2025 • 41 mins
This podcast discusses Dr. Peebles’s forthcoming book, The First and Last Bank: Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons, co-authored with the artist and illustrator Benjamin Luzzatto.  The conversation centers around the book’s groundbreaking proposal: a bank that would enable us to seize carbon from the atmosphere and offer a profound method for addressing climate change. Gustav draws on the anthropological archive to p...
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Playing with Fables: a Conversation with Huub Brouwer

March 29, 2025 • 44 mins
We often do not realize that deep down economics is a battleground of competing anthropologies: implicit or explicit theories of human nature, selfhood and subjectivity, quiet beliefs about how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. In this podcast we bring together researchers from different disciplines that study economic phenomena, systems, agency and behavior, ranging from historians and political philosophers to e...
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The King Who Ate Himself: a Conversation with Erik Bähre

March 15, 2025 • 38 mins
We often do not realize that deep down economics is a battleground of competing anthropologies: implicit or explicit theories of human nature, selfhood and subjectivity, quiet beliefs about how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. In this podcast we bring together researchers from different disciplines that study economic phenomena, systems, agency and behavior, ranging from historians and political philosophers to e...
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Is Talk Cheap? Language, Tourism, and Landscape: A Conversation with Thea Strand

January 1, 2025 • 43 mins
Rural speech is often denigrated, but how might it also be valuable? How might rural economies benefit from their linguistic diversity through tourism? In this third and final installment of our “Is Talk Cheap?” series on language and value, Kate and Ariana interview Dr. Thea Strand about a highly valorized dialect of rural Norway that won a national popularity contest and is increasingly being used commercially. Dr. Strand gives u...
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Is Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil ‘Sustainable’: A conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro

December 1, 2024 • 47 mins
In this episode, Kate and Ariana catch up with Montserrat Pérez Castro in the midst of her fieldwork in Mexico. Transnational food companies and palm oil mills employ sustainability workers to ensure they are ethically sourcing raw materials from farmers using sustainable practices. But what do industry insiders count and communicate as “sustainable,” and what kinds of value does this practice add? Pérez Castro describes her fieldw...
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Is Talk Cheap? Language and Value: A Conversation with Jillian Cavanaugh

November 1, 2024 • 46 mins
In this episode, Dr. Kathryn (Kate) Graber and doctoral student Ariana Gunderson interview linguistic anthropologist Jillian Cavanaugh about all things language and value. Much of Dr. Cavanaugh’s research in Bergamo, Italy, summarized here, has been on the political economy of code choice–that is, why people choose the ways of speaking they do, whether to access economic opportunities or to have a language of regional belonging, in...
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Economies of Care in California: a conversation with Dr. Carolyn Rouse

October 15, 2024 • 41 mins
In this conversation, Nikita Taniparti interviews Dr. Carolyn Rouse, who gives us a preview of her forthcoming book. Based on almost a decade of fieldwork in Lake County, CA, her book looks at an economy of care as opposed to an economy of things, and how the relations that emerge through care work are linked to life expectancy and health outcomes. Dr. Rouse explains her interlocutor’s search for freedom, and the narrative threads ...
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Notions of Unemployment and Welfare: A Conversation with Dr. Kelly McKowen

October 1, 2024 • 42 mins
In this conversation, Nikita Taniparti interviews Dr. Kelly McKowen, who explains Norway’s system of social democracy and the privatization of welfare services for the unemployed. We talk about “business of unemployment” and how it is part of Norway’s unique form of welfare capitalism. People in Norway feel a moral social obligation to get a job, which in turn speaks to the relationship between society and the state. Dr. McKowen al...
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