Theorizing the Contemporary – Finance Special Issue

Cultural Anthropology has just launched a new Theorizing the Contemporary Forum . The forum on “Finance”, guest edited by Bill Maurer, features eighteen essays on topics such as risk, debt, ethics, infrastructure and more. You can visit the entire forum here, http://culanth.org/?q=node/561

For an Anthropology of Atmospheric Markets: The Exemplary Case of Financial
Markets <http://culanth.org/?q=node/571]]> Michel Callon, Csi Ecole des mines de Paris
“Smart Targeting” and the Meaning of Money <http://culanth.org/?q=node/563]]> Marieke de Goede, University of Amsterdam
Community and Money, Local and European <http://culanth.org/?q=node/575]]> Luigi Doria, Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS – EHESS – ENS), Paris Luca Fantacci, Bocconi University, Milan
The Passions of Credit and the Dangers of Debt<http://culanth.org/?q=node/577]]> Julia Elyachar, University of California – Irvine
Life in Financial Calendrics <http://culanth.org/?q=node/565]]> Jane I. Guyer, Johns Hopkins University
The “Real Economy” and its Pariahs: Questioning Moral Dichotomies in
Contemporary Capitalism <http://culanth.org/?q=node/576]]> Ellen Hertz, University of Neuchatel, Stefan Leins, University of Zurich
Occupy Finance and the Paradox/Possibilities of Productivity<http://culanth.org/?q=node/573]]> Karen Ho, University of Minnesota
The Fear Index and Frankenstein Finance <http://culanth.org/?q=node/569]]> Paul Langley, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
What can anthropologists of finance teach us about the MERS we now find ourselves in <http://culanth.org/?q=node/572]]> Vincent Antonin Lepinay
The End of Finance? <http://culanth.org/?q=node/574]]> Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell University
Coping with the Discount Rate <http://culanth.org/?q=node/566]]> Fabian Muniesa, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines ParisTech, Paris
Why does (or doesn’t) finance need an anthropology?<http://culanth.org/?q=node/568]]> Horacio Ortiz, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines ParisTech, Paris
Why does finance need an anthropology?…Because financial value is a reality. <http://culanth.org/?q=node/564]]> Martha Poon, New York University
Joining the Dots <http://culanth.org/?q=node/578]]> Michael Pryke, Open University
Is this capitalism? If not, then what is it?<http://culanth.org/?q=node/567]]> Annelise Riles, Cornell University
A Dispatch from the Future (of Money and Technology Summit)<http://culanth.org/?q=node/579]]> Lana Swartz, University of Southern California
‘An Anthropologist on Wall Street’ <http://culanth.org/?q=node/580]]> Gillian Tett, Financial Times
The Ethics of Wall Street <http://culanth.org/?q=node/570]]> Caitlin Zaloom, New York University

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