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IPR Seminar Series - Dr. Kimberly Hoang

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October 5, 2021
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Virtual Zoom Meeting

Dr. Kimberly Hoang, University of Chicago, Director of Global Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology

Theme: Gender Inequality

"Engendering global capital: How Homoerotic Triangles Facilitate Foreign Investments into Risky Markets"

Engaging with the work of C. Wright Mills and Eve Sedgwick, in this study I theorize how homoerotic relations facilitate the flow of global capital into risky market economies. Drawing on interview data with more than 60 financial professionals managing foreign investments in Vietnam, I examine the co-constitution of gender and global capital by identifying three categories of deal brokers. System maintainers are men and women who accept that women’s bodies are necessary for male homosocial bonding between political and economic elites. System transformers are men and women who disrupt the status quo and develop alternative ways of deal brokering outside of erotic spaces. System defectors are those break the triangle altogether and work to create new markets.

 

A reminder that all participants need to register in order to participate in the fall seminar series. The link to the registration is here: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqdeuurT4pGtYpugjkDPxlO-EechsTva2w