Project Director: Kimberly Kay Hoang, Sociology
2017-18 Activities
- Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Obfuscating Disreputable Ties: Taboo Relationships within the EconomyThis that is global panel examine the dwelling of change involving the frightened and profane. It will probably examine areas where actors handle disreputable exchange in taboo areas. To push the industry further the panel shall ask how will you we think of exchanges which are “legal” but socially disreputable? Just how do market actors obfuscate disreputable ties through extremely intimate and personal means like gift-giving?
Speakers: Gabriel Rossman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Ca, l. A. « Moral responses into the Obfuscation of Disreputable Exchange: A Vignette Experiment on Baby-Selling »
Ashley Mears, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University « Obfuscating Exploitative Economies »
Kimberly Hoang, Assistant Professor of Sociology and also the university, University of Chicago « Risky Investments: types of Obfuscation in Frontier Markets » Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Hector Carrillo, « Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men »Professor Hector Carrillo (Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University) talks about their current guide, Pathways of want. (suite…)