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2-0395 ETHNOGRAPHIES OF FINANCIALIZED LIVES
Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 14:00-17:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers:  Llerena G Searle (Rhode Island School of Design) and Sohini Kar (Brown University)
Chairs:  Sohini Kar (Brown University) and Llerena G Searle (Rhode Island School of Design)
Discussants:  Gustav Peebles (The New School) and Melissa S Fisher (Georgetown University)
14:00
Defending the Discourse: Financial Elites, Power and the Regulation Process
Tijo Salverda (University of Amsterdam)
14:15
Outposts of Objectivism: Marketing the Free Market to Youth During Nepal's Long-Term Provisionality
Heather Hindman (University of Texas at Austin)
14:30
Constructing Legible Partners: Transparency Claims and Foreign Direct Investment in the Indian Real Estate Industry
Llerena G Searle (Rhode Island School of Design)
14:45
Ethnography and the Financialization of Market Conduct: Human Relations and Cyborg Workstations at Two Manchester Stockbrokers
Alexander James Parkinson (University of Manchester)
15:00
Islamic Economics and Economizing of Islam: How the Logic of Islamic Banking is Altering Islamic Piety
Sarah A Tobin PhD (Boston University)
15:15
Crisis, Temporality, and the Credit/Debt Semantics: The Renegotiation of Bank Loans in Contemporary Romania
Narcis S Tulbure (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies)
15:30
Discussant
Gustav Peebles (The New School)
15:45
Break
16:00
Financializing the Lives of Swedes with Orange Envelopes
Anette Nyqvist (Score, Stockholm University)
16:15
Financial Literacy and the Ends of Development: The Case of Malaysia
Laura E Elder (Davidson College)
16:30
The Reluctant Moneylender: Microfinance Loan Officers and the Management of Ethical Risk In India
Sohini Kar (Brown University)
16:45
Send Credit, Please: “Phone Friends”, Financial Mobilities and Gendered Self-Fashioning In Urban Papua New Guinea
Barbara Andersen (New York University)
17:00
Freedom or Fairness? A Coffee Cooperative Searches for the Better Deal
Courtney Dowdall (Florida International University)
17:15
Discussant
Melissa S Fisher (Georgetown University)
17:30
Discussion
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