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The Market as an Object of Attachment

6th May 2010, 17:00-19:00
Goldsmiths University London

Lecture by Prof Karin D.Knorr-Cetina

Karin Knorr Cetina is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, University of Constance, Germany and Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Chicago where she holds the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and of the Social Sciences.

She was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize for Distinguished Contributions to the Field by the Society for Social Studies of Science and Thomson Scientific in October 2009. She specializes in economic anthropology/ sociology, the anthropology of science, knowledge and technology, globalization and global society studies, contemporary social theory, and qualitative methods.

‘In this paper, I consider the foreign exchange market from a particular perspective: I will not focus on market participants and their activities, but rather on the object in which they are participating – on the market and how it engages participants and ensnares them in its project.’

Books and articles include:
Knorr Cetina, K. D. 2009. The Synthetic Situation: Interactionism for a Global World. Symbolic Interaction 32(1): 61-87.
Knorr Cetina, K. D. and Preda, A. 2004. The Sociology Of Financial Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Knorr Cetina, K. D. 1999. Epistemic Cultures. How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press.