Seminar Series
Inclusive Economies/Anthropology of Economies Seminars
Lent Term 2017
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20 January
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Linsey McGoey (University of Essex and LSE Alumna)
The elusive rentier rich: Piketty’s data battles and the power of absent evidence
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10 February
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Alice Forbess (LSE)
The values of advice: institutional utopias in austerity Britain
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24 February
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Laura Bear (LSE)
The Vitality of Labour
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10 March
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Natalia Buitron (LSE)
Multiplying Wealth: the politics of productivity in Ecuadorian Amazonia
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24 March
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Guest speaker tbc
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Summer Term 2016
This term we won’t be holding regular seminars, but please note the following two events organised by members of the group
Wed 27th- Thurs 28th April, 2016
Venues: Wed 27th April PAR.LG.03 (Parish Hall, Sheffield St); Thurs 28th April OLD 4.10 (Old Building, Houghton St), London WC2A 2AE
Places limited, please book through Eventbrite
https://www.facebook.com/events/597630213746868/
Thurs 9th June Old Theatre 18.30
http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2016/06/20160609t1830vOT.aspx
Friday 10th June (details TBC)
Please also note the following related events:
11 May 2016
The Finance Innovation Lab
1&2 June 2016
PERC - Goldsmiths and New Economics Foundation
And this network will be holding various events
http://www.igp.ucl.ac.uk/research/projects/financing-prosperity-network
Previous Term's Seminars
Lent Term 2016
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Friday
22 January
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Sohini Kar (LSE)
Bodies of Finance: Gender, Violence, and Space in Indian Banking
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Friday
5 February
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Alessandra Radicati (LSE)
Fisher Nationalism: Fishermen, Port Cities and Sinhalese Nationalism in Sri Lanka
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Friday
19 February
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Susan Johnson (Univ. of Bath)
Mobile Money and Economic Inclusion in Kenya: the Case of MPesa
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Friday
4 March
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Antina von Schnitzler (The New School, New York)
Beyond “Service Delivery Protests”: Infrastructure and Material Politics after Apartheid
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Friday
18 March
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Mara Nogueira-Teixeira (LSE)
Working title: Exception as Everyday Politics: Belo Horizonte and the 2014 Brazil World Cup
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Michaelmas Term 2015
Michaelmas Term 2015
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Friday
23 October 2015
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Lisa McKenzie - Fox-Trotting the Riot: Slow Rioting in Britain's Inner City
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Friday
6 November 2015
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Mitch Sedgwick - Complicit positioning: Anthropological knowledge and problems of 'studying up' for ethnographer/employees of corporations
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Friday
27 November 2015
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Juli Huang - The iAgent Social-Enterprise Model: class projects and the development moral economy
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Lent Term 2015
Lent Term Seminar Series
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Thursday
12 February 2015
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Anna Tsing, discussion of her manuscript, "The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins."
11-12:30, LRB. R505
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Friday
20 February 2015
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Keith Hart, discussion of his manuscript, "Money and the Making of World Society."
5-6:30 CLM. 1.02
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Thursday
26 February 2015
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Michael Hertzfeld, presentation and discussion of his current research, "Dominion in Disguise: Crypto-Colonialism and its Discontents"?
Starting from the examples of Greece and Thailand, (other examples include Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Iceland), the speaker will ask what consequences accrue to countries that have never formally accepted the colonial yoke but have nevertheless been formed under conditions dictated by Western Realpolitik. He will focus particularly on the material consequences of the ways in which such countries generally reify national culture, and on the attendant erosion of alternative visions of political space and action.
5:30-7pm Graham Wallas Room
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Michaelmas Term 2014
Michaelmas Term 2014
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Friday
24 October 2014
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Laura Bear – “Navigating Austerity: currents of debt along a South Asian river – an Introduction”
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Friday
7 November 2014
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Ana Gutierrez-Garza “The bitter sweetness of the gift in the economy of intimate labour: experiences of sex and domestic workers in London”
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Friday
28 November 2014
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Deborah James “Introduction: The Wellsprings of Consumption and Debt in South Africa”
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Other Events
Recent Events
Workshop with Jane Guyer, Howard Stein and others
Monday 30th March, Seligman Library
For further information please contact Professor Deborah James d.a.james@lse.ac.uk or Dr Laura Bear l.bear@lse.ac.uk
28-29 May 2015
Department of Anthropology
LSE, Tower 2, 2.04
To register your attendance at the workshop, please click here
Thursday 28 May
10am Welcome
10:15-12:00 Session 1: Generative Speculation
10:15-10:55 “The Infrastructures of Foresight: Economic Volatility, Foreshortened Time, and Household Futures”
Caitlin Zaloom (New York University)
10:55-11:35 “Moral Speculation and the Imaginative Futures of Family Firms”
Sylvia Yanagisako (Stanford University)
11:35-11:45 Discussant’s Comments Deborah James (L.S.E.)
11:45-12:15 General Discussion
12:15-1:30 Lunch in Department of Anthropology, Old Building, 6.06A1:30-5:15
Session 2: Agency & Mediating Financial Speculation
1:30-2:10 “Private Equity, "Portfolio Companies," and Contemporary Shifts in the Nature of Capital Accumulation”
Karen Ho (University of Minnesota)
2:10-3:00 “Conviction narratives: Using Technologies of Imagination in Fund Management” Kimberly Chong (U.C.L.)
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:10 “From Speculation to Investment: the Work of Financial Analysts”
Stephan Leins (University of Zurich)
4:10-4:20 Discussant’s Comments Max Bolt (University of Birmingham)
4:20-4:50 General Discussion
6:00 Malinowski Lecture, Old Theatre, Main Building, followed by drinks reception at L.S.E.
Friday 29th May
10:00-12:00 Session 1: Governing Speculation
10:00-10:40 “Speculation, Illicit and Complicit: Contract, Uncertainty and Governmentality”
Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
10:40-11:20 “Speculating on Development: Land, Provincial Capital, and the Visionary State in India”
Carol Upadhya (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore)
11:20-11:30 Discussant’s Comments
Nayanika Mathur (University of Cambridge)
11:30-12:00 General Discussion
12:00-1:15 Lunch in Department of Anthropology, Old Building, 6.06A
1:15-4:35 Session 2 Technologies and Temporalities of Speculation
1:15-1:55 “Lifespans, Blockchains, and Patrimonies: The Material Temporalities of Gold and Bitcoin”
Elizabeth Ferry (Brandeis University)
1:55-2:35 “Betting on a Performed Future: Predictive Procedures at the Delhi Racecourse”
Stine Puri (University of Copenhagen)
2:35--3:05 Break
3:05-3:45 “Capitalist Divination: Popularist Speculators and Technologies of Imagination on the Hooghly River”
Laura Bear (L.S.E.)
3:45-3:55 Discussant’s Comments
Gisa Weszkalnys (L.S.E.)
3:55-4:35 General Discussion
4:35-5:05 Closing Comments
Professor Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge)
5:15 Drinks at White Horse Pub
6:00 Dinner at Thiwanya, 10 Gate Street, WC2A 3HP
Past Events
Money, Livelihood & the Classic Conceptual Repertoire in the 21st Century: a conversation across the disciplines
A one-day workshop at LSE, 30th March 2015. Seligman Library
Initiated by Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins/ LSE Alumna), Keith Hart (LSE, Pretoria) and Howard Stein (Michigan), this workshop seeks to foster, across disciplinary boundaries, a dialogue between anthropologists, economists/development economists, and others.
9.30-12.30 Livelihood: The Temporalities of Life and Money in the 21st Century
This panel addresses life course, household, wages, and what are “needs”? Events of the last decade suggest that, far from being anachronistic, the household is a more powerful economic concept than ever. We aim to examine and critique the current uses of the term, and deepen the vision of what kind of analyses can only be done if we preserve the concept: but then, by whom? with what assumptions about, for example, the longevity of the mutual contract entailed? to what ends is the concept currently used, or could be adapted to? If we revisit "house-holding", this could bring in the new financial embeddedness of "the house", as housing has become the single most important component of national capital in the 21st century (as per Piketty's graphs). What we fail to grasp might be the limits of householding as a practice of wealth accumulation amongst financial elite, as well as the new middle class who increasingly create family trust funds in order to limit taxation of their annual household income or assets. I'd
hazard to say that the concept of the household is vital to our ability to analyse some processes unfolding today that would otherwise remain invisible.
Jane Guyer, Johns Hopkins
“Houses, households, CPI, particularly ‘consumption’ “
David Graeber, LSE
“Jobs, Labor and Value”
Karen Sykes, Manchester
“Social network analysis of transnational kin and livelihoods”
Deborah James, LSE
“Households, debt, and obligation”
Sohini Kar, LSE
“Creditworthy Households”
Discussant: Max Bolt, Birmingham
1.30-5.00 Money, Accumulation and Speculation: What “System”?
This panel asks what kind of systemic dynamics can be isolated and where they are located; whether they involve circulation and/or accumulation; whether they have only national and/or global reach; and asks whether any alternatives are envisaged. Is there a 21st century mercantilist hoarding: where, and in what forms? How does “system” figure, (as in the “more heat than light” judgment of Mirowski?)
Laura Bear, LSE
“Speculation”
Chris Gregory, Manchester/ANU
“Money, Debt and Morality”
John Weeks, SOAS
“Accumulation and the Economics of Inclusion and Exclusion”
Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS
“Profiting without Producing: Financialization, Instability and Accumulation”
Philip Arestis, Cambridge
“Systemic Dysfunctionality: Policy, Employment and the Euro Crisis”
Kate Meagher, LSE
“Inclusive Markets and the Risks of Paradigm Maintenance”
Discussant: Deborah James, LSE
Overview/synthesis and Q and A
Keith Hart (LSE), Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins), Howard Stein (U of Michigan)
Research papers will be available beforehand. Contributions will be short (15-minute-long) provocation pieces rather than fully-fledged talks.
For further information please contact Professor Deborah James d.a.james@lse.ac.uk or Dr Laura Bear l.bear@lse.ac.uk
Please click here to register your attendance