033 Financialization in Europe: Changing Forms of Money

Wednesday, July 12, 2017: 11:00 AM-12:45 PM
Gilbert Scott Building - Room 134 (University of Glasgow)
The forms of money and payment are changing, influencing profoundly mundane transactions in everyday life. Cash is being replaced by electronic instruments that link payment to other functions such as credit, accounting and surveillance. This, in turn, affects state power, social inequalities, life styles and subjectivity. This collection of papers discusses how changes in the way we pay for goods and services redefines the social world in Europe.
Chair:
Alya Guseva
Discussant :
Akos Rona-Tas
Domesticizing Financial Economies: Studying Finance in­Between Market Devices, Everyday Calculation and Government
José Ossandón, Copenhagen Business School; Joe Deville, Lancaster University; Jeanne Lazarus, Science Po; Mariana Luzzi, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
Payment Cards in Europe. the Return of Nation-States
Akos Rona-Tas, University of California, San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University
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