Thai Silk Dot Com: Authenticity, Altruism, Modernity and Markets in the Thai Silk Industry

Graham, Mark

doi:10.1080/14747731.2013.786224

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“…Some of the later articles on technology, communication and innovation related themes in Globalizations have looked at a wide variety of topics such as camera phone witnessing in the 'war on terror' (Reading, 2009); technology in the international silk trade (Graham, 2013); Caribbean 'virtual shop fronts' (Hinds-Harrison, 2014); sustainable development goals and affective politics (Gabay and Ilcan, 2017); surveillance and sexuality in Singapore (Salehin and Vitis, 2020); and environmentalism and artificial intelligence (AI) (Dauvergne, 2021). The article by Reading (2009), discussed 'mobile witnessing' in the context of mobile camera phone images taken by a witness survivor in the 7 July 2005 London bombings.…”

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Advancing arguments on technology, work and the body, in the global political economy

Moore

Roy

2022

Global Political Economy

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Developing a better understanding of transformations and configurations in global affairs requires researchers in global political economy to take seriously the emergence of forms of technology and their integration into the institutional, social, economic and political fabrics of contemporary life. However, research in key global political economy journals has not been entirely forthcoming in acknowledging and recognising this, over time. Where we see publications that look at areas of technology and the global political economy, what has been consistently missing in global political economy research, however, is the discussion of the direct impact of technology on workers, working conditions, the employment relationship, and social protections, and, as an arguably direct result of digitalisation, new threats for the corporeal and for sustainability of materiality. This debates and commentary piece for the first issue of the Global Political Economy journal argues that the burgeoning literature in these areas can be carried forward by scholars in the field of global political economy.

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Advancing arguments on technology, work and the body, in the global political economy

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2022

Global Political Economy

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“…(3) For instance, seeGraham (2013a) for an example of how discourses about the Internet were strategically employed in the Thai silk industry.…”

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Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Technomediated Positionalities in Kenya's Outsourcing Sector

Graham

2015

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E ast A frica has trad itio n ally been characterized by sta rk b arriers to n o n p ro x im ate co m m u n icatio n a n d flows o f in fo rm atio n . It was the w o rld 's last m a jo r region w ith o u t fibre-optic b ro a d b a n d In tern et access, an d until the sum m er o f 2009 h ad been forced to rely on slow an d costly satellite connectivity. T his all changed when the first o f fo u r fibreo p tic cables was connected in K enya: bringing w ith it the prom ise o f fast an d affordable In tern et access fo r the m asses, an d the ability o f th e co u n try to m ove tow ards a know ledgebased econom y. W ithin the context o f this m o m en t o f change, th is p ap er explores the ways th a t m an ag ers o f outso u rcin g firm s envisage 'connectivity.' O ver the co u rse o f fo rty -o n e interview s, co n tra d icto ry spatial im aginaries were discovered. W hen describing th eir p erceptions o f the c o u n try 's new technom ediated positionalities, m any interview ees rep eated visions th a t allow ed geographic frictions to ev ap o rate. B ut w hen m an ag ers were asked a b o u t their actual m ediated positionalities, they presen ted a very different w orld: o ne o f b arriers, frictions, an d th e very real role th a t d istance con tin u es to play in the w o rld 's econom ic peripheries.T he goal o f this p ap e r is to in te rro g a te why we see such sta rk disconnects betw een perceptions an d practices o f connectivity. T h e co n trad ictio n s co uld be seen as an exposition o f a scalar schism betw een in te rn atio n a lly o p era tin g regim es o f tru th (ie, pow erful discourses th a t have their origin nonlocally) an d local experiences a n d practices in K enya. A lternatively, we can th in k a b o u t the co n tra d icto ry acco u n ts o f connectivity as em ergent from strategic spatial essentialism s th a t are practised to achieve p articu la r goals. By focusing on the co n tra d ictio n s em bed d ed in to the ways in w hich people speak a b o u t connectivity in the K enyan o u tso u rcin g sector, we can learn m uch a b o u t how arg u m en ts a b o u t the entanglem ent o f connectivity, grow th, an d developm ent are o perationalized. 'C onnectivity' is offered as a necessary, an d som etim es even sufficient, co n d itio n from w hich grow th an d econom ic developm ent can be b ro u g h t in to being: a set o f sp atial im aginaries th a t conveniently s u p p o rt a n atio n al developm ent strateg y o f rem aking K enya in the co n tem p o rary know ledge econom y.

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Beyond Phu-Tai Matmii Handwoven Silk Fabric: Weaving Pattern Design, Ancestral Wisdom, and Originality

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Thai Silk Dot Com: Authenticity, Altruism, Modernity and Markets in the Thai Silk Industry

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Advancing arguments on technology, work and the body, in the global political economy

Advancing arguments on technology, work and the body, in the global political economy

Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Technomediated Positionalities in Kenya's Outsourcing Sector

Beyond Phu-Tai Matmii Handwoven Silk Fabric: Weaving Pattern Design, Ancestral Wisdom, and Originality

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