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Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Sohini Kar – London School of Economics

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Dates:4 March 2019
Times:16:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Speaker:Dr Sohini Kar
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Social Anthropology Seminar

Monday, 4th March 2019

Dr Sohini Kar – London School of Economics

“ Enfolding the Poor : Microfinance and the Mediation of Risk in India”

Over the past decade, commercial or for-profit microfinance has grown rapidly in India under the auspices of both the government’s financial inclusion agenda, and the increasing recognition of profit at the bottom of the pyramid. Microfinance institutions raise capital through loans from commercial banks, as well as private and public equity. As the poor are enfolded into global finance through these small loans, they are also drawn into the concerns of systemic financial risk. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Kolkata, India, this talk examines how financial risk comes to shape not just lending practices, but also how the poor are drawn into new circulations of capital, effectively financializing poverty. Focusing on the everyday practices of assessing creditworthiness and the collateralization of life through insurance, this talk demonstrates how urban poor borrowers are increasingly both objects of risk-taking and hedging.

Second Floor Boardroom 2.016 / 017

Arthur Lewis Building

Time 4:15 to 6:00pm

(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)

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Dr Sohini Kar

Role: Speaker

Organisation: LSE

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