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*Money, Credit, Value: Devices, Practices and Modes of Knowing, Sensing
and Making the 'Economic' (Open Panel 33.)
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Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), October
9 -- 12, 2013
San Diego, California, Town and Country Resort and Convention Center
(http://www.4sonline.org/meeting)
This panel is contributing further to the recent trend of exploring the
'economic' in STS. Complementing the great literature existing on
high-finance, here the discussions are going to revolve around topics
sometimes even economics or economic-minded social sciences leave
without notice, namely how (economic) value is recognized, measured or
perceived; what role money and other valuing devices - being particular
kinds of method assemblages - play in enacting the economy; how credit
and debt is recorded, remembered and managed; and how (dis)abilities and
power is played out, made possible, conceived or revealed. We are
waiting submissions from any related disciplines in so far the topics
talk to the panel, but would be happy to see contaminations of STS,
material semiotics, economic anthropology, economic sociology, and, of
course, economics (both mainstream and heterodox). We are especially
interested in ways money, or other types of currencies and valuation
frameworks perform value and the economy; in numbers, the works of
numberings, accounting and calculation practices; in economic measures,
statistics, and governmentalities; in non-modernist systems of exchange,
transactions, and conversions; in economics and other ritual-systems;
and in modes of sensing and feeling the economy. Especially encouraged
are case studies or even actual experiments where the economic is tried
to be reimagined or remade, or cases where STS and anthropological
insights are put into conversation with both the theory and the practice
of economics.
Abstracts can be submitted electronically at
http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s13/, the deadline is
*March 17, 2013.* Feel free to contact me with you questions in advance
at [log in to unmask]
For students the 4S offers travel grants, you can find more info about
that at http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/travel_grants.
Best wishes,
Andras
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