The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) is seeking a doctoral student in the field of private wealth research to join a project headed by Professor Jens Beckert. More information about the research topic can be found on the website of the Research Group on Wealth and …
The Department of International Politics at City, University of London, is inviting applications for a Permanent Lectureship in the field of International Politics or International Political Economy. The Department is home to the City Political Economy Research Centre, which you can read about on the CITYPERC website. Lecturer in International …
Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, University of Chicago Press 2021. In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions, such as the …
Finance and Society, vol. 7 no. 2 (2021). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 7, number 2. The issue includes research articles by Christopher Gibson on the financialisation of public water and Daniel Souleles on alienation amongst option traders, as well …
Two PhD positions have been announced by the Collaborative Research Centre at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) on the “Dynamics of Security”. The posts are aimed at scholars working in the field of Security Studies and/or the Social Studies of Finance: The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 138 “Dynamics of Security …
Warwick Business School is inviting applications for a postdoctoral research fellow on a project led by Katharina Dittrich, entitled “Financially redesigning the Anthropocene: Investigating tools, data, and practices for climate risks and targets”. Capital allocation is a powerful way of distributing agency – both diverting and directing it. The consequences …
Financial infrastructures: From colonial trajectories to global digital transformations. University of Amsterdam/SASE 2022, 9-11 July 2022 Barbara Brandl, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, and Carola Westermeier are organizing a mini-conference in Amsterdam next year as part of SASE 2022. The growing concern of social scientists and the general public regarding the impacts of …
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) is inviting applications for postdoctoral positions in the following areas: Political Economy (Professor Lucio Baccaro) Economic Sociology (Professor Jens Beckert) Posts are expected to start on 1 October 2022. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2022. More information available here.
Digitalisation and creation of alternative monetary and financial spaces. Université Grenoble Alpes, 9-10 June 2022. Researchers from Université Grenoble Alpes, Université de Genève and Université de Lausanne are organising a workshop on the theme of digitalisation and monetary-financial alternatives: This two-day workshop proposes an exploration of the intersection between digitalisation …
Financialized savings in public water governance: An illustrative case study in the arid American West. Christopher Gibson. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2021). How does financialization of the economy impact public governance of natural resources? One way includes a shift in how savings and cash accumulation are understood and practiced within public …
