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Alex Simpson (Macquarie University, Australia)

Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London: An Ethnography

ISBN: 978-1-83909-495-8, eISBN: 978-1-83909-494-1

Publication date: 28 October 2021

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Simpson, A. (2021), "Index", Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London: An Ethnography, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 127-131. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-494-120211011

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Copyright © 2021 Alex Simpson


INDEX

a-morality
, 78

Adiaphoric environment
, 9

Adiaphorisation
, 10, 93, 102, 104, 113

Adiaphoron
, 9

Agency
, 87

Aggressive neoliberalism
, 18

Anxiety
, 74

Architectural culture
, 28

Architecture
, 38

Austerity
, 9

Bank of England
, 15–16, 31–32, 38

Belonging
, 42

Big Bang, The
, 40

Blankness
, 28

Body accumulation strategy
, 75

Boundaries of finance
, 41–42

Bishopsgate Boundary between City and Shoreditch
, 45

Dragon Boundary Marker
, 45

perimeters of control
, 46–51

symbols of distinction
, 51–54

view of City from Greenwich observatory
, 43

Building Design (BD)
, 27

Calling card functions
, 61

Capital fluidity
, 18

Carbuncle Cup
, 26

Certainty
, 92

Choice
, 87

Citizen
, 4, 28, 35

Citizenship
, 32, 35

City Corporation
, 44

City of London
, 1–2, 5–8, 15–16, 30, 33, 41, 73, 106, 109, 116

Bretton Woods and Shackles of regulation
, 16–18

crisis of age (2008)
, 20–22

ghosts of finance and legitimacy of history
, 37–39

great transformation’ and birth of Euromarket
, 18–20

market society
, 23–24

social presence of
, 55

spatial and cultural framework of
, 56–61

City Reform Group
, 44

Client service
, 52

Coercive harmony
, 73

Coherence of finance (see also Boundaries of finance)

competition
, 114–116

impact of COVID
, 110–111

disconnection
, 112–114

feel
, 116–120

financial markets
, 111–112

political fear
, 109

white-collar sweatshop
, 111

Coherent idea
, 1, 4, 38

of finance
, 119

Coherent market system
, 4

Collateral victims
, 88–89

Collective identity
, 55

Commitment
, 75

Community
, 42

Competition
, 56, 57, 63–64, 72, 114–116

function of discipline
, 69–70

functioning development
, 69

growth of
, 61–62

Marx’s theory of labour
, 65

power of
, 68

social Darwinism
, 62, 64

vulnerability of
, 66–67

Competitive action
, 96

Competitive individualism
, 77

Complete participation
, 11

Constant competition
, 103

COVID
, 109

Cultural ecosystem
, 12

Cultural imagination
, 20

Cultural unconsciousness
, 24

Culture of legitimation
, 10

Cum-ex trade works
, 2

Cycling
, 75–76

Data collection process
, 73

Deep aimlessness
, 3

Deep hanging out
, 3, 10

Deep unease
, 3

Demarcation
, 105

Democratising homeownership
, 22

Dirt
, 2–3

Disaster
, 26

Discipline
, 75, 99, 101

Disciplining strategy
, 93

Disconnection
, 112–114

Disembedded financial
, 17

Disembedding of financial activity
, 22

Dominant market system
, 77

Dominant social identity
, 63–64

Doxa
, 24

Economic recessions
, 16

Economy
, 17

Edgework
, 76, 79–80

affinity of
, 83

Elite sensibility
, 33–36

Embedded liberalism
, 17, 99

Embeddedness
, 17

Emotions
, 31, 80

Endurance
, 75

Ethical responsibility
, 95, 106

Ethnographers
, 11

Ethnography
, 48, 73

of finance
, 10–14

inquiry
, 74

of power
, 48

Euromarket
, 18–20, 110

Failure
, 85

Fear
, 13, 75

Feel
, 33, 116–120

Feeling
, 31

Fiction
, 92, 104

Fictional ontology
, 98

of finance
, 93

Fictionalised realm
, 79

Fictionalising
, 102

Finance
, 1–2, 4, 95

conducting ethnography of
, 10–14

cut-throat demands of
, 57

disposition
, 12

hubs of
, 5

material organisation of
, 32–33

patterns of
, 93

performers of
, 103

powerful logic of
, 96

sensibilities of
, 56

train, prepare and equip
, 77

truths of
, 35

workers
, 72, 79, 83–84, 93

Finance work

body accumulation strategy
, 75

coercive harmony
, 73

collateral victims
, 88–89

competitive logic of capital
, 78–79

cycling
, 76–78

economic life
, 86–87

edgework
, 79–81

emotive responses
, 82

ethnographic inquiry
, 74

market movement
, 82–83

misrecognition of trickle-down economics
, 87–88

performance
, 84–85

sense of paranoia
, 83–84

senses of fear
, 85–86

Financial action
, 101

Financial architecture
, 28

Financial capitalism
, 8–10

Financial crisis (2008)
, 22, 68

Financial engagement
, 93

Financial extraction
, 10

Financial firms
, 4

Financial hub
, 109

Financial idea
, 2

Financial institutions
, 33

Financial interaction
, 98

Financial life
, 1, 71

Financial markets
, 1, 55–56, 111–112

dominance
, 39

system
, 93

Financial nobility
, 60

Financial prominence
, 24

Financial reality
, 98

Financial responsibility
, 55

Financial truth
, 102

of subjectivity
, 32

Financialisation
, 1

Fit for work identity
, 76

Fortification
, 50

Friction costs
, 88

Gherkin
, 25–26, 46

Global financial economy
, 4

Golf
, 75

Great transformation
, 18–20

Greatness
, 29

Guest
, 4, 28, 35

Harm production
, 8–10

Idealised financial marketplace
, 5

Immediate submission to order
, 94, 97

Impressionistic observation
, 23

Incongruity
, 28

Inequality
, 55

Inflationary crises
, 16

Inherently performative strategy
, 77

Inner Perimeter
, 51

Insecurity
, 72

Insider
, 2

Intellectual nobility
, 42, 72

Intelligence
, 65, 72

Intensive coherence
, 28

Internal symbolic rule systems
, 42

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
, 17

Interpret
, 33

Irrationalities
, 111

Keynesian economics
, 18

Knowledge
, 42, 55

making process
, 54

Language
, 98

Leadenhall Building
, 39

Leadenhall Market
, 30

Lloyd’s of London
, 30, 49

London Metal Exchange (LME)
, 57–58

Margin Call (film)
, 21

Market
, 17, 89, 92, 102, (see also Financial markets)

domination functions
, 97

framework
, 79

freedom
, 112

fundamentalism
, 22, 24

market-making individual
, 70

morality
, 14, 86

movement
, 82–83

organisation functions
, 93–94

prescribed financial ethic
, 106

reality
, 92

shocks
, 16

society
, 23–24

Marx’s theory of labour
, 65

Material
, 36

organisation of finance
, 32

Megalithic Cross-Rail project
, 15

Monetary value
, 13, 101

Moods
, 31

Moral sensibility
, 54

Moral tempering process
, 93

Moral volition
, 106

National debt crisis
, 22

Natural ability
, 61

Natural financial competition
, 93

Natural social order
, 114

Neoliberal market
, 5

Neoliberalism
, 10

Occupy London movement
, 37

Oneness
, 29

Optionality
, 87

Outsiders
, 2, 79

Paranoia
, 13, 75, 84

sense of
, 83–84

Pathology
, 10, 102

Performance of finance
, 1–2

Performative strategy
, 101–102

Performers of finance
, 103

Perimeters of control
, 46

aesthetic of control
, 50–51

ethnography of Wall Street investment bank
, 47

fortification of City’s boundaries
, 48–49

Inner Perimeter
, 51

Lloyd’s of London
, 49

Phenomenology
, 42

Pitching tent
, 11

Place
, 42

Pointing
, 28

Political fear
, 109

Poverty population
, 74

Power
, 33–36

Profit
, 87

Psycho-geography
, 2–3, 11

Purpose
, 51

Quentin
, 36, 57–59, 104

Racing Post
, 4

Real economy
, 18, 93

Reality
, 34, 51, 54, 96, 104

Recovery
, 8

Reembedding process
, 17

Reinforcing systems
, 102

Sacrifice
, 75

Selection process
, 86

Self
, 51

self-interested social identity
, 71

Social action
, 101

Social Darwinism
, 62

Social identity
, 42, 55

Social integration
, 59

Social landscape of disconnection
, 5–8

Social organisation
, 4

Social reality
, 33, 106

Social responsibility
, 55

Society of performance
, 101

Space
, 33–36

Spatial community
, 42

Spatial topography of dominance

Gherkin
, 26

ghosts of finance and legitimacy of history
, 37–39

London of contemporary finance
, 25

motions of affect and spatial construction of city
, 28–33

space, power and curating elite sensibility
, 33–36

Walkie-Talkie
, 26–28

Speculators
, 7

Speed
, 72

State Nobility
, 60

Stranger
, 4, 28, 35

Stranger in Moscow (song)
, 37

Structural elite
, 72

Structured products
, 98

Super-subset of individuals
, 71

Survivability
, 57

Symbolic boundary making
, 98

Symbolic violence
, 42

Symbols of distinction
, 51–54

Talent
, 61

Technology
, 5, 111

Terrible waste of good crisis (see Financial crisis (2008))

Thought
, 31

Thuggish diagram of greed
, 28

Transformation of symbolic organisations
, 92

Transparency
, 25

Trickle-down economics
, 107

Truth
, 54, 92

game of architecture
, 29

making process
, 33

UK banking firm
, 91

Unworlding process
, 102

Urban design
, 28

Vastness
, 28

Virile masculinity
, 15

Vulnerability
, 72

of competition
, 66–67

Walkie-Talkie
, 26–28, 33, 35

Way of being
, 42, 48, 72, 94

White-collar sweatshop
, 111

Wholeness
, 29

World Bank
, 17

World shaping effect
, 20

Zero-sum

competition
, 96

ethics
, 96