Alan Smart  

Mailing Address:
Department of Anthropology
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB T2N IN4
Canada

Phone: (403) 220-6377 Fax: (403) 284-5467

E-mail: asmart@ucalgary.ca

Major Influences on Professional Life:

Colleagues in SAW, Society for Economic Anthropology, Society for Urban Anthropology

Subfields of interest within Anthropology:

Urban, Political Economy, Housing, Globalization

Interests in the Anthropology of Work:

Labor relations, cross-border investment, factory production

Regions of specialization and Languages:

Hong Kong, China, Cantonese, Canada

Major Publications:

2004 Alan Smart and Josephine Smart. Urbanization and the Global Perspective. Annual Review of Anthropology 32:263-285.

1999 "Petty Capitalists as Pioneers of Globalized Accumulation." Urban Anthropology.

1991 J. Smart & A. Smart "Personal Relations & Divergent Economics: Hong Kong Investment in China." Int’l Journal of Urban & Regional Research.