[ASA_PEWS] Announcement for PEWS listserv

[Pitluck, Aaron]

Dear Chris & PEWS, could you please send the below CFA to the PEWS listserv, as I believe it may be of interest to our members. Thank you! Aaron

CFA: Relational and Cultural Analyses of Finance at ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, DL: October 15
Dear Colleagues,
I am organizing a session on “Relational and Cultural Analyses of Finance” at the International Sociological Association’s Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco (July 6-11, 2025). This is one of 1,200 sessions across all of Sociology, with two dozen sessions being organized by the Economy & Society Research Committee (ISA RC02). The deadline is October 15, 2024.
This open call for papers seeks theoretically-driven empirical research that investigates finance as social relationships, as well as papers that directly refute this framing. More broadly, how does the meaning-making that infuses our lives shape ongoing financial relationships? For example, if financial instruments, products, and services are social relationships, how are they embedded in racial and gender systems, and with what consequences? If financial products are conceived of as commodity chains—a string of interorganizational relationships stretching across time and space—how is finance racialized and gendered? If religious ideas permeate many people’s lives, how do these shape financial behaviors, products, and markets? At the level of organizations, how does viewing debt and equity as relationships alter our understanding of the behavior of households, firms, corporations, municipalities, states, or transnational regions? At the level of financial instruments and markets, how are bonds, mortgages, and equity products created, marketed, and consumed? These broad questions are merely indicative of the wide range of research welcome in this panel.
Two types of theoretically-driven empirical papers will be given preference. First, research conducted outside of the North Atlantic, with a strong preference for research in Africa and the Islamic world. Second, research that addresses gender and/or racial systems. Nevertheless, research in either category is rare, and therefore all research that fits the session description are most welcome!
To submit an abstract to my session: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session21576.html
To learn more about other calls for abstracts from the Economy & Society Research Committee: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium839.html
To get information on how to submit an abstract, or see calls for abstracts for all 1,2000 sessions: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts
 The deadline is strict: October 15, 2024.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Aaron Pitluck


Aaron Z. Pitluck
Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation
Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University

Aaron.Pitluck at IllinoisState.edu<mailto:Aaron.Pitluck at IllinoisState.edu>