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 …
Rethinking Financial Behaviour: Rationality and Resistance in the Financialization of Everyday Life. Ariane Agunsoye, Bristol University Press 2024. Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and manage diverse portfolios. Deviating from this is often deemed …
Will capitalism survive the 21st century? Institute for Education, University College London, 5 December 2024, 18.00-19.30. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is hosting its inaugural Annual Conversation with Gillian Tett, Ash Sarkar, and Thomas Piketty. The event is free and open to all but registration is required. Join us …
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 …
Mini-conference: The socio-economics of asset stranding. Montréal SASE 2025, 18-20 July 2025. Colleagues are organizing a mini-conference on asset stranding in Montréal next year as part of SASE 2025. Our mini-conference aims to develop the analysis of asset stranding by assembling presentations that investigate climate change as a problem of …
Decrypting financial discourses: the narratives, documents, and writings of financial industries and institutions. Aberdeen SIEF 2025, 3-6 June 2025. Colleagues are organizing a panel on decrypting financial discourses at the annual conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) in Aberdeen next year. Besides operationalizing governmental bureaucratic structures (Hull …
A research group at the Global Climate Forum in Berlin is seeking a PhD researcher for a project on financing green transition. The research group ‘The Political Economy of Financing Large-Scale Transformations: Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Wars, Reconstruction, and the Green Transition’ (OBFA-TRANSFORM)—funded via the Emmy Noether programme of Deutsche …
The Scales of Corporate Harm Lab in the Department of Geography at Penn State University is recruiting a PhD student. Potential applicants should have interests in one or more of the following: health, economies, and spatial and social analysis. The PhD student will have the opportunity to work on data …
Paranoid Finance. Fabian Muniesa, Polity 2024. There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value – of ‘value creation’ – that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor: …
