果冻影院

Social Studies of the Economy in Latin America

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in research offering a close-up examination of economic life. In particular, ethnographic research has increasingly shed light on the multiple ways in which economy, culture and technology intersect, and in which the economy as an object is constituted and performed. Fertile inquiry has been conducted into the world of economic policy-making and expertise, the media鈥檚 role in the public economic discussion, the configuration of markets and economic subjects, the nature of economic calculation and its material devices, and the variety of economic knowledges, among other topics.

This workshop will focus on the social studies of the economy in Latin America. It aspires to put together the plurality of work about the social nature of the economy that has been developed in the region, and to discuss the advantages, limitations and challenges of the social studies of the economy for understanding Latin America鈥檚 political economy.

Programme:

All welcome on July 1st, at 果冻影院, Room 347, 16 Taviton Street, LONDON, WC1H 0BW

• 9.45聽Welcome / Introduction
• 10.00 鈥� 11.50聽
  • Mariana Heredia/Claudia Daniel (Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina): 鈥淚nflation before and after economic expertise in Argentina: Framing a public problem in the press (1940-1990)鈥�
  • Federico Neiburg (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): 鈥淓conomic Emergencies and the Real Economy. Some ethnographic threads of thought鈥�
• 12.10 鈥� 14.00
  • Gustavo Onto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): 鈥淐ompetition through papers: the role of materiality in antitrust regulation鈥�
  • Tom谩s Undurraga (果冻影院, UK): 鈥淢aking news of value: exploring valuation practices at Valor Economico鈥�
• 15.00 鈥� 16.50
  • Tom谩s Arizt铆a (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile): 鈥淓nacting customers in Chilean business practices: three movements for an ethnography of data practices and devices鈥�
  • Ana Gross (University of Warwick, UK): 鈥淥bserving Indicators Decompose and Multiply: Controversial Economic Data in Argentina and Beyond鈥�
• 16. 50 - 17.30聽Concluding remarks