Post-Doc, Emotional Finance (Psychoanalysis Unit)
PhD candidate
Thesis Title: The Work of Financialisation: An Ethnography of a Global Management Consultancy in post-Mao China
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Stephan Feuchtwang
Laura Bear |
About
Kimberly is the research officer and co-investigator of the Emotional Finance Project at University College, London. She has recently completed her PhD in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics which examines the practices and logics of financialisation being disseminated by a global management consultancy in contemporary China, and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). As part of her doctoral research she carried out 16 months of fieldwork inside one of the world’s largest consultancies, and interviewed over 80 China based professionals in the consulting and outsourcing industries. Her research interests include financial markets, forms of economic knowledge, managerial practices of corporations, ethnography of organisations, China’s market economy and science and technology studies.
She has been a visiting scholar to New York University and is a member of the research group, ‘Cultures of Finance’ at the Institute of Public Knowledge, New York. She holds a MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and a BA in Economics and Sociology from Selwyn College, University of Cambridge.
