F&S: Call for papers – When finance becomes tech

Special issue CFP: When finance becomes tech. Finance and Society, 2024. The editors of Finance and Society invite submissions for a special issue on how financial services are fusing with digital technology and what the broader implications of this are in social, political, and economic terms. The seamless incorporation of …

Special issue: Finance capital and the ghosts of empire

Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 17 no. 4 (2024). Edited by Clea Bourne, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie, and Paul Gilbert. With contributions from the editors, Ashley Cordes, Emmanuel Guerisoli and Santiago Mandirola, Kavita Dattani, and more. In this special issue, we take up the metaphor of the ghost to identify …

FSN 2024: Conference programme available

Finance and society conference 2024. University of Sheffield, 12-13 September. The programme for this year’s conference is now available here. There are limited places available for those not on the programme who may wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register here. The settlement between …

New book: Whoosh goes the market

Whoosh Goes the Market: Algorithms, Automation, and Alienation. Daniel Souleles, University of Chicago 2024. Markets are messy, and no one knows this better than traders who work tirelessly to predict what they will do next. In Whoosh Goes the Market, Daniel Scott Souleles takes us into the day-to-day experiences of …

Forthcoming book: The bailout state

The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People. Martijn Konings, Polity Books 2024. How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble. In The Bailout …

F&S: Call for papers – When finance becomes tech

Special issue CFP: When finance becomes tech. Finance and Society, 2024. The editors of Finance and Society invite submissions for a special issue on how financial services are fusing with digital technology and what the broader implications of this are in social, political, and economic terms. The seamless incorporation of …

Forthcoming 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 …

Conference CFP: Household finance in an unequal world, December 2024

Household finance in an unequal world: Social approaches. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, 5-6 December 2024. The Emmy Noether Research Group on “Peripheral Debt: Money, Risk and Politics in Eastern Europe” is inviting paper proposals for a conference on household finance. We invite contributions studying household finance from …

Workshop CFP: Everyday financial risk and intersectionality, November 2024

Advancing the understanding of everyday financial risk through intersectionality. Goldsmiths University of London, 7-8 November 2024. Ariane Agunsoye, Kate Padgett Walsh and Hayley James are organising an ISRF funded workshop on financial risk and intersectionality. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who research different experiences of …

Special collection: Ten years of F&S

  Finance and Society is celebrating its ten year anniversary! In celebration we invite you to browse a curated collection of content representing the pioneering research that has been published in the journal over the last decade. Featuring the inaugural editorial, which outlined the need for and scope of this innovative journal, through to …