Savage Minds Notes and Queries in Anthropology + March 23, 2015 Carole McGranahan Can’t Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives [Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest author Sarah Besky as part of our Writer’s Workshop Series. Sarah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Natural Resources and Environment and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Starting in Fall 2015, she will be Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Sarah specializes in the study of nature, capitalism, and labor in South Asia and the Himalayas. She is the author of The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in Darjeeling India (University of California Press, 2014) and other articles on social justice in agriculture and is currently working on a new book project on transparency, financialization, and tea auction reform in Northeast India.] One of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits is a game show parody called “What’s the Best Way?” The premise is simple: a group of New Englanders jockey to give fast, accurate driving directions. Phil Hartman plays an old man with an airy Downeast Maine drawl; Adam Sandler an electrical contractor from Boston; and Glenn Close an upper-class Connecticut resident. The host, played by Kevin Nealon, asks questions about how to get from one place to another within New England. For ,
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3/26/2015 Can’t Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives | Savage Minds
[Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest author Sarah Beskyas part of our Writer’s Workshop Series. Sarah is Assistant Professor inthe Department of Anthropology and the School of Natural Resourcesand Environment and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Michigan Society ofFellows at the University of Michigan. Starting in Fall 2015, she will beAssistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Public Affairsat Brown University. Sarah specializes in the study of nature, capitalism,and labor in South Asia and the Himalayas. She is the author of TheDarjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade TeaPlantations in Darjeeling India (University of California Press, 2014) andother articles on social justice in agriculture and is currently working on anew book project on transparency, financialization, and tea auctionreform in Northeast India.]
One of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits is a game show parody
called “What’s the Best Way?” The premise is simple: a group of New
Englanders jockey to give fast, accurate driving directions. Phil Hartman
plays an old man with an airy Downeast Maine drawl; Adam Sandler an
electrical contractor from Boston; and Glenn Close an upper-class
Connecticut resident. The host, played by Kevin Nealon, asks questions
about how to get from one place to another within New England. For
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3/26/2015 Can’t Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives | Savage Minds