Dear colleagues,
We invite contributions to our panel on Everyday Finance at the upcoming
EASA conference in Milan, July 20-23. We have Don Kalb and Deborah James
acting as chair/discussants, and we hope to create some lasting
collaborations among scholars of finance and financialization.
short abstract
Drawing on economic anthropology's legacy of examining work, consumption
and saving, we observe how these practices change as a result of new
financial pressures and incentives. Studies of everyday finance will serve
us to chart a future for anthropology's understanding of global finance
long abstract
Economic anthropology has a rich legacy of interrogating and reconstructing
the everyday logic of work, consumption and saving. While they remain
important mainstays in the provisioning and management of resources among
members of social groups and household units, as well as in the
transmission of these resources along consecutive generations, they are
also changing as a consequence of the growing dominance of finance in the
wider economy and the novel pressures and incentives it represents.
Financialization presents economic anthropologists with a challenge for the
future. It is no longer possible to think of work incomes absent pension
investments, of consumption absent credit cards and installment plans, of
housing absent complex mortgage instruments, or of saving absent
risk-management. Anthropologists have recently taken on the world of global
finance, but they have mostly looked at its commanding heights, delivering
insights into the lifeworlds of financial experts and the social and
cultural embedding of financial instruments.
Increasingly, however, ethnographic studies have been studying finance from
the ground up by exercising the discipline's traditional strengths in
penetrating household units and everyday practices. In this panel, we will
draw on and extend these endeavors in order to illuminate anthropology's
unique contribution to the study of global finance by observing such things
as household agents and their exposures to risk, tensions between the
temporalities of everyday life and those of global markets, political
mobilizations surrounding finance, and moral understandings of what finance
does.
Chair: Don Kalb
Discussant: Deborah James
Paper proposal can be submitted by February 15, by following this link:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3955
best,
Mateusz Halawa (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Marek Mikuš (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Hadas Weiss (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
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