Finance As a Verb: Local Practices of Global Finance

The principal objective of this session is to build social theory by collecting together diverse ethnographic observations of local financial practices in diverse contexts. Two types of ethnography are particularly prized for their rarity. The first would be ethnographies with a strong temporal dimension. For example, in diverse contexts, what does the social life of debt look like from the moment the parties create it to the moment the relationship is dissolved? Similarly, how do the relationships created by equity and derivatives change over time? The second would be financial ethnographies that stretch spatially across numerous parties in the commodity/value chain or use field analysis. I am particularly keen on attracting scholars conducting research outside of the North Atlantic, however all abstracts that understand finance as a verb are welcome.