Sumários

Final essay workshop discussions

22 Abril 2026, 15:00 EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI

1. Aidan: Embedding and Performing Debt: How Buy Now Pay Later (Klarna) Reshapes Everyday Consumption
2. Laura: The Political Economy of Manufactured Poverty
3. Yang: The Pandemic Crisis: A Comparative Study of Embeddedness and Financialization in China and the West
4. Yiwei: The financialization of real estate in China: rise and decline


Final essay workshop discussions

20 Abril 2026, 15:00 EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI

1. Ariana: The financialization of housing in Lisbon
2. Diana: Algorithmic Credit Scoring: Is AI Reinforcing Financial Inequality?
3. Malgorzata: Performing Trust: Credit Rating Agencies and the Social Construction of Risk Before the 2008 Crisis
4.  Fady: Limitations of Utopian money projects
5. Dmitri: The New Economy and Generation Z: How Financial Exclusion, Housing Costs, and a Live-in-the-Moment Mindset Are Redefining Money


In-class text presentations - session 3

15 Abril 2026, 15:00 EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI


Student presentations: 
Narrative Construction as Sensemaking: How a Central Bank Thinks 
The Capitalization of Almost Everything
Economic Markets as Calculative Devices
The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History
Money for the people

Final essay workshop


In-class text presentations - session 2

13 Abril 2026, 15:00 EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI


Student presentations: 
What is a Financial Market?
When perhaps the real problem is money itself: The practical materiality of Bitcoin
Financialization and its discontents
Utopianism and the Future of Money

Final essay workshop


In-class text presentations - session 1

8 Abril 2026, 15:00 EDUARDO COLTRE FERRACIOLLI

Student presentation: The Sociology of Finance

In-class activity: a de-familiarization exercise
Final essay workshop