When Payments Infrastructure Turns Political: The 2015 Greek Financial Crisis Through Social Lenses
By Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, Leonidas Efthymiou and Sophia Michael “Underneath most of these new [fintech] launches, including Apple payments, you find […]
The GAY-TM: How to make a splash with cash dispensers
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo looks at the ‘GAY-TM’ campaign at this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which transformed usually dull and unnoticed ATMs into something much more colourful and visible Read More
Infrastructures of money
Joe Deville on just how important the infrastructures of money are, reporting on a recent conference on Money as Communication at the University of Southern California Read More
Safety in numbers: Squatting as social and financial security
Are residents of squatter settlements in the “developing world” really less secure than home owners in wealthier countries? Perhaps not. Read More
Mini-conference report: Domesticizing Financial Economies, SASE, Chicago
Jeanne Lazarus, Mariana Luzzi, and José Ossandón report on the SASE mini-conference they organised, including reflections on what they term the “Zelizerian turn” Read More
Framing the place of observation networks in the recent sociology of finance
Jose Ossandon introduces some key ongoing debates within economic sociology, while highlighting an ongoing conversation between Elena Esposito and David Stark about how we might attend better to ‘observation networks’ Read More
Life Insurance as Technology of Care
Sofía Ugarte looks at life insurance as a market device. How do policyholders and their families experience the life insurance market? And what what role might kinship ties of care play? Read More
Politicians go wild in Wongaland, but there are bigger fish to fry
Donncha Marron on the spectacle of politicians and experts targeting payday lending, while ignoring the role of poverty and social and economic precarity Read More
The matter of the credit card
Why might the plastic in the plastic card card matter? Joe Deville finds out Read More
Suspicious Money
An exclusive translation of an extract from Ariel Wilkis’ forthcoming book ‘Suspicious Money’, which explores how money has assumed a new role in the everyday life of the poor in Latin America Read More
