Real Economy: Ethnographic Inquiries into the Reality and the Realization of Economic Life
A Wenner-Gren workshop
June 16 -18, 2016
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The workshop will focus on discussing the history and current construction of the ‘real economy,’ a key category in contemporary economic thinking and practices, both in the world of experts and in ordinary life. The real economy and its opposites (the virtual or fictitious economy) have become increasingly central to interpretations of the experiences of globalization, economic crises and financial fluxes, to measurements of poverty and consumption, as well as to analyses of the nature of money or the conceptualization and implementation of monetary policies. The papers to be presented at the workshop (highly diversified in terms of ethnographic settings and institutional affiliations of their authors) will allow for a profound and innovative ethnographic and comparative comprehension of the entanglements and assemblages between native modes of conceptualizing and referring to the ‘reality’ of economy life and modes of turning diverse aspects of ‘the economy’ into an observable, quantifiable and objectified reality [read more]
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Participants

Maxim BOLT
(University of Birmingham, UK)

Verónica GAGO 
(Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Jane GUYER 
(Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Keith HART 
(Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa, London School of Economics, UK)

Deborah JAMES 
(London School of Economics, UK)

Jeanne LAZARUS
(Sciences Po, France)

Benoit de L’ESTOILE 
(IRIS, EHSEE/CNRS/École Normale Superieure, France)

Mariana LUZZI 
(Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina)

Eugênia MOTTA
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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Workshop programme

Federico NEIBURG 
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Gustavo ONTO 
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Horacio ORTIZ 
(East China Normal University, China)

Jorge PANTALEÓN
(Université de Montréal, Canada)
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Juan Pablo PARDO-GUERRA 
(University of California, San Diego, USA)

Fernando RABOSSI 
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Alexander ROIG 
(Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina)

Ariel WILKIS
(Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina)

Caitlin ZALOOM 
(New York University, USA)
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