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 …

Annual conference: Call for papers closing on 1 May

Finance and society conference 2024. University of Sheffield, 12-13 September. The call for papers for this year’s conference will close on 1 May 2024. The settlement between finance and society continues to come under strain from multiple directions: climate change, geopolitical rivalries, powerful new technologies, resurgent nationalism, cost of living …

CFP for new journal: Money on the Left

Call for papers: Money on the Left. A new journal, Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice, has put out a general call for papers. The editors are inviting papers that address issues including the following: Contemporary politics and provisioning: critiquing political language and rhetorical framing (public spending as funded …

New book: Homo numericus

Homo Numericus: ‘The Coming ‘Civilization’. Daniel Cohen, Polity 2024. As the industrial revolution did in the past, the digital revolution is creating a new economy and a new sensibility, bringing about a radical revaluation of society and its representations. From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no …

CFP: Political economy of green-digital transition, June 2024

Political economy of green-digital transition: International workshop and summer school. LUT University, 4-6/10-14 June 2024. The research group on Economy, Technology, and Society at LUT University in Finland is running a workshop and summer school the political economy of green-digital transition. In an era defined by pressing environmental concerns and …

Just published: F&S vol. 10 no. 1

Finance and Society, vol. 10 no. 1 (2024).   The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 10, number 1. The issue includes pieces on currency internationalization, infrastructural ambivalence, and sustainable finance. It also features a forum devoted to Leon Wansleben’s The Rise of Central Banks …

FSN 2024: Final call for papers

Finance and society conference 2024. University of Sheffield, 12-13 September. The call for papers for this year’s conference will close on 1 May 2024. The settlement between finance and society continues to come under strain from multiple directions: climate change, geopolitical rivalries, powerful new technologies, resurgent nationalism, cost of living …