The everyday construction of value: A Canadian investment fund, Chilean water infrastructure, and financial subordination. Michael Pryke and John Allen. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Infrastructure in several economies in the Global South has rapidly undergone financialization, aided and abetted by governments opening-up their infrastructure assets to global institutional investors in …
Critical finance studies conference 2023. Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Crete, 21-23 June. The Critical Finance Studies conference goes to Crete next year. The 2023 conference will take place at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno. The organisers are encouraging work that “seeks to engage finance in new and critical …
Politics & Society, vol. 50 no. 4 (2022). Edited by Florence Dafe, Sandy Brian Hager, Natalya Naqvi, and Leon Wansleben. With contributions from the editors, Ayca Zayim, Lena Rethel, Elsa Clara Massoc, Benjamin Braun, and Manolis Kalaitzake. The contributions to this special issue engage with how decades of financialization …
Economy and Society, vol. 51 no. 4 (2022). Edited by Nathan Coombs and Matthias Thiemann. With contributions from the editors, Jacqueline Best, Edin Ibrocevic, Stephanie Mudge and Antoine Vauchez, and Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles. This special issue argues that to make sense of the increased prominence of central banks …
Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 15 no. 4 (2022). Edited by Paul Langley and Daivi Rodima-Taylor. With contributions from the editors, Andrew Leyshon, Vincent Guermond, Abbi Kedir and Euphrasie Kouame, Rob Aitken, and more. Applications of digital technologies to retail money and finance have gathered pace across the globe over …
Caught between frontstage and backstage: The failure of the Federal Reserve to halt rule evasion in the financial crisis of 1974. Pierre-Christian Fink. American Sociological Review, OnlineFirst (2022). Rule evasion by companies is a major driver of change in contemporary market societies. Recent research holds that periods of market instability …
The financialization of remittances in Nepal: Governing through the pedagogy of fear and hope. Lekh Nath Paudel and Rahel Kunz. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). In the last decade, remittances have become connected to financialization, expanding financial markets and deepening financial logics in what has been termed the financialization of remittances …
Africa, vol. 92 no. 4 (2022). Edited by James Christopher Mizes and Kevin P. Donovan. With contributions from the editors, Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, Rundong Ning, Christina Tekie Collins, and more. In this issue, we place the geography of African finance today in a different frame: our approach links the flow of …
Open call for submissions and proposals. Finance and Society. The editors of Finance and Society are inviting submissions in a range of formats: (1) Research articles of 8-10,000 words; (2) Essays of 4-6,000 words; (3) Review articles of 2-3,000 words; and (4) Book reviews of 1-2,000 words. Proposals from guest …
Intersections of finance and society, 2022. City, University of London, 15-16 September. The final programme for this year’s conference is now available here. There are limited places for those not on the programme who may wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register here. Events …
