FSN 2025: Call for papers open

Finance and society conference 2025. Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September. The call for papers is now open for this year’s conference in Copenhagen. We are delighted to announce the following keynote speakers: Beyond embeddedness: New directions for the sociology of finance Christian Borch, University of Copenhagen Paranoid finance, magic technology, …

Special issue CFP: Offshore finance

Offshore finance: The socio-economics of a global system. To be published in Socio-Economic Review. A planned special issue of Socio-Economic Review aims to explore the past, present, and future of offshore finance. Offshore finance is a central feature of the world economic system, acting as a repository for at least …

Public seminar: Financial nihilism today

Financial nihilism today. Institute of Advanced Studies, London, 24 March 2025, 17.30–19.30. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is hosting a talk on financial nihilism by Amin Samman (City) with commentary from William Davies (Goldsmiths).   Nihilism has a long history in philosophy, literature, and politics.   In his lecture, …

New book: Asset capitalism in South Korea

Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea. Bohyeong Kim, University of Michigan Press 2025. Critically Capitalist presents an ethnography of South Korea’s asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit …

Webinar series: Financialisation in Latin America

Financialisation in Latin America. BISA-IPEG webinar series, February 2025. The BISA International Political Economy Group is running a webinar series on financialisation in Latin America. The webinar series that critically engages with the variegated pathways of financialisation across Latin America, shedding light on its interplay with state institutions, social relations, and …

New book: Finance aesthetics

Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Edited by Torsten Andreasen et al., Goldsmiths Press 2024. What does finance capital look like? How do the push and pull of debt and credit shape our feelings and relations? Across fifty-five unforgettable entries, Finance Aesthetics offers an unorthodox appraisal of our bizarre, distorted contemporary …

Workshop CFP: Methods in critical finance, July 2025

Methodological pluralism in critical finance research. Goethe University Frankfurt, 3-4 July 2025. Colleagues are organising a workshop on methods in critical finance studies, to be held at the Goethe University Frankfurt in July this year. [C]ritical finance scholarship has developed a remarkably pluralist research agenda. Topics range from financial hegemony …

New book: Money, value, and the state in East Africa

Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa. Kevin Donovan, Cambridge University Press 2024. Decolonization in East Africa was more than a political event: it was a step towards economic self-determination. In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin Donovan analyses the contradictions of economic sovereignty and citizenship in …

Special issue: The Gordian knot of finance

b2o: an online journal, vol. 6 no. 1 (2024). Edited by Martijn Konings. With contributions from Stefan Eich, Amin Samman, Dick Bryan, Janet Roitman, and Michelle Chihara. We should perhaps consider ourselves as occupying the mental space that Keynes did after he completed A Treatise on Money, which catalogued the …

Just published: F&S vol. 10 no. 3

Finance and Society, vol. 10 no. 3 (2024).   The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 10, number 3. The issue includes articles on the asset condition, Apartheid financing, and Insurtech, plus a forum on postcapitalist finance and review articles on books by Melinda Cooper, …