[Invitamos en enviar resúmenes a la mini-conferencia “Domesticizing Financial Economies, Part 3 (y final!)”: que formará parte de la Reunión de SASE 2016 que se llevará a cabo en Berkeley del 24 al 26 Junio. La fecha límite para enviar resúmenes es el 18 de enero. Cordialmente, Joe Deville, Jeanne Lazarus, Mariana Luzzi y José Ossandón]
Domesticizing Financial Economies: Part 3. Call for papers for mini-conference at SASE 28th Annual Conference, ‘Moral Economies, Economic Moralities’. June 24-26, 2016, University of California, Berkeley. Organizers: Joe Deville, Jeanne Lazarus, Mariana Luzzi, and José Ossandón.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 18th, 2016.
The mini-conference “Domesticizing financial economies, part 3” will pursue the rich and exciting discussions of the first two Domesticizing financial economies mini-conferences, held at Chicago and London at the 2014 and 2015 SASE meetings. Our starting point is that the use of even the most sophisticated financial products can be understood in the light of a close empirical description of their various social and technical contexts, ranging from social ties and obligations, to ways of calculating, to specific devices and informational infrastructures. Rather than (or as well as) seeking to understand how financial economies are “economized”, to draw on a term used by Koray Çalışkan and Michel Callon, we are thus interested in work that explores how monetary transactions are woven into the fabric of the everyday and come to be “domesticized”. Continue reading →