Date:Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
Venue: Research and Postgraduate Research Institute, School of Economics, Government and Communications, Universidad Central. Santa Isabel 1278, Room 67, VKII building.
Organizers: Felipe González (Universidad Central de Chile) & José Ossandón (Copenhagen Business School). Event developed in the context of a collaboration between the Max Planck – UCEN Group for Research in Economics and Society and the project “Post-pandemic Poverty: Debt and the Feminisation of Finance in Marginal Sites”, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Registration here.
Program
8.30 Welcome coffee
9.00 – 10:30. First session
– And what else can I do? If you can no longer spend less. Strategies of middle-income households in Chile to cope with inflation. Lorena Pérez Roa (Social Work, Universidad de Chile), Alejandro Marambio Tapia (Sociology, Universidad Católica del Maule) and Gabriela Azocar de la Cruz (Social Work, Universidad de Chile).
– The debt of others: towards a sociological exploration of attitudes and perceptions about the use of credit from relationship networks and reference groups. Matías Gómez (Sociology P. Universidad Católica & Research Institute of Economics, Government and Communications, Universidad Central)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30. Second session
– Financial oikonomization: the financial government and administration of the household. José Ossandón (Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School), Joe Deville (Department of Organisation, Work and Technology and the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University), Jeanne Lazarus (Centre de sociologie des Organisations, Sciences-Po-CNRS), Mariana Luzzi (Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, CONICET) (Presentation in Spanish)
– Entrepreneurship as therapy: learning to fail and care through micro-entrepreneurship in Santiago, Chile. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani (Anthropology, P. Universidad Católica de Chile) and Constanza Quezada (Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
12:30 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30. Third session
– “Papito corazón”: exploring the economic disadvantages of being head of household of popular sectors in Santiago, Chile. Lorena Pérez Roa (Social Work, Universidad de Chile) and Rocío Gallardo (Social Work, Universidad de Chile).
– Consumer credit and personal networks. Exploring the role of network socioeconomic heterogeneity in consumption and indebtedness. Felipe González (Grupo Max Planck – UCEN de Investigación en Economía y Sociedad, Instituto de Investigación de Economía, Gobierno y Comunicaciones, Universidad Central), Gabriel Otero (Grupo Max Planck – UCEN de Investigación en Economía y Sociedad, Instituto de Investigación de Economía, Gobierno y Comunicaciones, Universidad Central), Matías Gómez ((Grupo Max Planck – UCEN de Investigación en Economía y Sociedad, Instituto de Investigación de Economía, Gobierno y Comunicaciones, Universidad Central & Sociología, P. Universidad Católica).
15:00 Closing and social activity
