Call for papers (closes 15 February 2016)
Panel Title:
P027 Not rotten apples: disciplinary approaches to economic wrong-doing
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4042
14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures
Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department of
Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca
20-23 July, 2016
Short abstract:
The past few years have revealed widespread economic wrong-doing,
especially in the financial sector but also elsewhere. Often this was
explained in terms of rotten apples, aberrant, amoral individuals. This
panel considers that economic activity in terms of approaches familiar in
the discipline.
Long abstract:
The conference theme invites us to approach emerging events in terms of our
discipline's intellectual legacy. Papers in this panel will look at such
events in the economic realm. The financial crisis of 2007 revealed
substantial economic activity that appears suspect, even fraudulent. This
is different from corruption, which has attracted scholarly attention, not
least because it was especially visible in the financial sector rather than
in government, though it was hardly limited to that sector. That activity
often is explained in terms of rotten apples, aberrant individuals who
ignore the rules of honesty and fair dealing. However, the extent of that
activity makes such an individualist explanation implausible. This panel
will encourage consideration of that activity in terms of ideas, long
familiar in the discipline, that attend to the social settings and
processes that facilitate or even encourage such economic activities. In
doing so, it also will encourage consideration of how suited those ideas
are for making sense of that activity. Although there are many such ideas,
the most obvious are found in Marx's work on capitalism, Durkheim's work on
anomie, Sahlins's work on structural tendencies in Melanesian exchange and
E.P. Thompson's work on moral economy. This panel will consider how these
and other ideas in our intellectual store can help us to make sense of
recent, fairly widespread economic wrong-doing, and help us to understand
why these activities are seen as wrong by many people and are carried out
by many others.
To propose a paper, please follow this link:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4042
For further information or if you have any questions please do not hesitate
to email the two panel convenors:
James G Carrier (Max Planck Institute) - [log in to unmask]
Marc Morell (Institut CatalĂ d'Antropologia) - [log in to unmask]
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