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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Economic Sociology, vol. 26 no. 1 (2024). Edited by Leon Wansleben. With contributions from Jens Beckert, Neil Fligstein, Ute Tellmann, Caleb Scoville, and Annika Rieger. Economic activities force earth systems to undergo dramatic changes, while some ecosystems collapse. In consequence, conditions for economic activities change, sometimes rapidly and sometimes in …
From Croesus to Nakamoto: How currencies emerge, between practice and theory. To be published in the Revue de la Régulation. A planned special issue of Revue de la Régulation aims to explore how currencies emerge. There is a vast panorama of work on money in the social sciences. They focus …
Perspectives on rural economies and ecologies: Past, present and future. Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA), Greece, 21-23 May 2025. Joyce Goggin is organizing a conference on rural economies and ecologies in Athens next year. This interdisciplinary conference will address topics related to our understanding of the rural as not outside, …
Speculating the future: Fictional worlds and financial realities. Roskilde University, Denmark, 22-23 May 2025. Ali Rıza Taşkale is organizing a workshop on finance and fiction in Denmark next year. While social thinkers have begun to explore the role of speculative fiction in understanding financial abstractions and employing it as a …
Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times: The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism. Edited by Ben Gook, Transcript Verlag 2024. What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the relevance of a concept that began reappearing in …
