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SUMMARY:The Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from 
 fiction and some general reflections on inter-disciplinary research - Dr L
 inda Arch (ICMA\, University of Reading)
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:The presentation will begin with some reflections on the autho
 r’s 2021 article ‘The Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: A Per
 spective from Fiction’. This article explored the global financial crisi
 s through the lens of three literary texts. The abstract for the article i
 s as follows:\nSince the global financial crisis of 2007-09 academic resea
 rch has paid considerable attention to understanding the nature of the cri
 sis\, its causes and consequences. This is not surprising given the scale 
 and scope of the crisis. Much of this research has been undertaken within 
 social science disciplines. At the same time\, the crisis has also been th
 e subject of fiction – novels\, poetry and drama and there is also a sma
 ll body of academic scholarship on fiction relating to the crisis (and on 
 finance in fiction more generally). The purpose of this viewpoint article 
 is to suggest that fiction can offer a new perspective on the global finan
 cial crisis and thereby enhance our understanding of it.\nThis exploration
  draws upon three works of post-crisis fiction: the 2009 play by David Har
 e\, The Power of Yes: A Dramatist Seeks to Understand the Financial Crisis
  (hereafter The Power of Yes)\; Other People’s Money\, a novel by Justin
  Cartwright (2011)\; and Robert Harris’s novel The Fear Index also publi
 shed in 2011. Its approach is based on close readings of the three texts i
 n question.\nFinance fiction stimulates a reconceptualization of the globa
 l financial crisis as a crisis of innovation and technological change.\nTh
 is article is a viewpoint article. The originality lies in the author’s 
 interpretation of reading the global financial crisis through fiction.\nTh
 e presentation will then broaden the discussion to interdisciplinary resea
 rch more generally\, with a focus on interdisciplinary research involving 
 finance. An early-stage research project focused on misconduct in banking 
 and financial services will be introduced. This study asks whether our und
 erstanding of misconduct in finance might be deepened through insights fro
 m the discipline of sociology\, particularly the sub-discipline of crime a
 nd deviance.\n
LOCATION:John Bradfield Room\, Darwin College and Zoom
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