Zsuzsanna Vargha
Biographic Data
| ID | 171690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zsuzsanna Vargha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zsuzsanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Vargha |
| SIGNATURE | VARGHA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | ESCP Europe Business School, France |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1578-6531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gender‐based exclusionary practices in performance appraisal
We examine how performance appraisal is, following Acker, an organizational process producing inequality. By process we mean that appraisal is an on‐going and relational year‐round practice, enacted through interaction between men and women, rather than a bounded and individualized event. We use Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to analyze how masculine domination guides what is presented as a gender‐neutral organizational practice. We conducted in‐d…
Debt trails: Following Relations of Debt Across Borrowers, Organizations, and States
We introduce the concept of 'debt trails', a methodological and conceptual term to study debt relations across different sites and over time. Recent theories in the interdisciplinary Social Studies of Finance, political economy and economic and human geography have theorised debt in relational terms, although with a distinct and often disconnected theoretical and empirical focus. We propose debt trails to transcend and bridge these areas. Methodo…
How risky debt became ordinary: A practice theoretical approach
Existing research on how consumers experience increasing debt as normal focuses on the shifting moral meanings surrounding debt. Examining rapid mortgage debt escalation in post-socialist Hungary, we propose a different approach. Using practice theory, we identify credit use as ‘ordinary consumption’: a non-expressive practice which enables other, meaningful practices; akin to energy use. Like energy, credit is channelled by background infrastruc…
Legal infrastructures: How laws matter in the organization of new markets
Research into the creation of markets highlights the importance of law-making, seen to express relations between stakeholders in emerging organizational fields. Less understood is the role of existing regulation, despite related work on path-dependency. We unpack the role of extant laws by analysing consecutive attempts to establish the mortgage market in post-socialist Hungary, mobilizing the anthropology of law and actor-network methods. Based …
Spatializing the future: Financial expectations, EU convergence and the Eastern European Forex mortgage crisis
Existing accounts of failure to predict the financial crisis focus on the complexity of the financial system, and are less useful for understanding crises in non-securitized markets. We examine the roots of optimism leading up to the Eastern European mortgage crisis through the case of Hungary, and use recent theories of expectations, which understand them as both pragmatic and fictional practices that commonly incorporate narratives. Based on ar…
Assembling lines: Queue Management and the Production of Market Economy in Post-Socialist Services
‘Time priority’ by queuing is the epitome of market fairness in stock exchanges, while queuing also symbolizes the shortage economy of state-socialism. How are mundane queues made to constitute markets in settings where they performed anti-markets? The paper looks at this problem through ethnomethodology, which sees queuing as the prime example of how social-moral order is produced by participants of situations. Queues appear out of thin air, and…
The Financialization of Everyday life or the Domestication of Finance: How mortgages engage with borrowers' temporal horizons, relationships and rationality in Hungary
The file associated with this record is under an 18-month embargo from publication in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Educate or serve: The Paradox of 'Professional Service' and the Image of the West in Legitimacy Battles of Post-Socialist Advertising
This article investigates a puzzle in the rapidly evolving profession of advertising in post-socialist Hungary: young professionals who came of age during the shift to market-driven practices want to produce advertising that is uncompromised by clients and consumers, and to educate others about western modernity. It is their older colleagues-trained during customer-hostile socialism-who emphasize that good professionals serve their clients' needs…
Spatializing the future: Financial expectations, EU convergence and the Eastern European Forex mortgage crisis
Existing accounts of failure to predict the financial crisis focus on the complexity of the financial system, and are less useful for understanding crises in non-securitized markets. We examine the roots of optimism leading up to the Eastern European mortgage crisis through the case of Hungary, and use recent theories of expectations, which understand them as both pragmatic and fictional practices that commonly incorporate narratives. Based on ar…
How risky debt became ordinary: A practice theoretical approach
Existing research on how consumers experience increasing debt as normal focuses on the shifting moral meanings surrounding debt. Examining rapid mortgage debt escalation in post-socialist Hungary, we propose a different approach. Using practice theory, we identify credit use as ‘ordinary consumption’: a non-expressive practice which enables other, meaningful practices; akin to energy use. Like energy, credit is channelled by background infrastruc…
Legal infrastructures: How laws matter in the organization of new markets
Research into the creation of markets highlights the importance of law-making, seen to express relations between stakeholders in emerging organizational fields. Less understood is the role of existing regulation, despite related work on path-dependency. We unpack the role of extant laws by analysing consecutive attempts to establish the mortgage market in post-socialist Hungary, mobilizing the anthropology of law and actor-network methods. Based …
Debt trails: Following Relations of Debt Across Borrowers, Organizations, and States
We introduce the concept of 'debt trails', a methodological and conceptual term to study debt relations across different sites and over time. Recent theories in the interdisciplinary Social Studies of Finance, political economy and economic and human geography have theorised debt in relational terms, although with a distinct and often disconnected theoretical and empirical focus. We propose debt trails to transcend and bridge these areas. Methodo…
Educate or serve: The Paradox of 'Professional Service' and the Image of the West in Legitimacy Battles of Post-Socialist Advertising
This article investigates a puzzle in the rapidly evolving profession of advertising in post-socialist Hungary: young professionals who came of age during the shift to market-driven practices want to produce advertising that is uncompromised by clients and consumers, and to educate others about western modernity. It is their older colleagues-trained during customer-hostile socialism-who emphasize that good professionals serve their clients' needs…
Assembling lines: Queue Management and the Production of Market Economy in Post-Socialist Services
‘Time priority’ by queuing is the epitome of market fairness in stock exchanges, while queuing also symbolizes the shortage economy of state-socialism. How are mundane queues made to constitute markets in settings where they performed anti-markets? The paper looks at this problem through ethnomethodology, which sees queuing as the prime example of how social-moral order is produced by participants of situations. Queues appear out of thin air, and…
Educate or serve: The Paradox of 'Professional Service' and the Image of the West in Legitimacy Battles of Post-Socialist Advertising
This article investigates a puzzle in the rapidly evolving profession of advertising in post-socialist Hungary: young professionals who came of age during the shift to market-driven practices want to produce advertising that is uncompromised by clients and consumers, and to educate others about western modernity. It is their older colleagues-trained during customer-hostile socialism-who emphasize that good professionals serve their clients' needs…
The Financialization of Everyday life or the Domestication of Finance: How mortgages engage with borrowers' temporal horizons, relationships and rationality in Hungary
The file associated with this record is under an 18-month embargo from publication in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Spatializing the future: Financial expectations, EU convergence and the Eastern European Forex mortgage crisis
Existing accounts of failure to predict the financial crisis focus on the complexity of the financial system, and are less useful for understanding crises in non-securitized markets. We examine the roots of optimism leading up to the Eastern European mortgage crisis through the case of Hungary, and use recent theories of expectations, which understand them as both pragmatic and fictional practices that commonly incorporate narratives. Based on ar…
Assembling lines: Queue Management and the Production of Market Economy in Post-Socialist Services
‘Time priority’ by queuing is the epitome of market fairness in stock exchanges, while queuing also symbolizes the shortage economy of state-socialism. How are mundane queues made to constitute markets in settings where they performed anti-markets? The paper looks at this problem through ethnomethodology, which sees queuing as the prime example of how social-moral order is produced by participants of situations. Queues appear out of thin air, and…
How risky debt became ordinary: A practice theoretical approach
Existing research on how consumers experience increasing debt as normal focuses on the shifting moral meanings surrounding debt. Examining rapid mortgage debt escalation in post-socialist Hungary, we propose a different approach. Using practice theory, we identify credit use as ‘ordinary consumption’: a non-expressive practice which enables other, meaningful practices; akin to energy use. Like energy, credit is channelled by background infrastruc…
Legal infrastructures: How laws matter in the organization of new markets
Research into the creation of markets highlights the importance of law-making, seen to express relations between stakeholders in emerging organizational fields. Less understood is the role of existing regulation, despite related work on path-dependency. We unpack the role of extant laws by analysing consecutive attempts to establish the mortgage market in post-socialist Hungary, mobilizing the anthropology of law and actor-network methods. Based …
Gender‐based exclusionary practices in performance appraisal
We examine how performance appraisal is, following Acker, an organizational process producing inequality. By process we mean that appraisal is an on‐going and relational year‐round practice, enacted through interaction between men and women, rather than a bounded and individualized event. We use Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to analyze how masculine domination guides what is presented as a gender‐neutral organizational practice. We conducted in‐d…
Debt trails: Following Relations of Debt Across Borrowers, Organizations, and States
We introduce the concept of 'debt trails', a methodological and conceptual term to study debt relations across different sites and over time. Recent theories in the interdisciplinary Social Studies of Finance, political economy and economic and human geography have theorised debt in relational terms, although with a distinct and often disconnected theoretical and empirical focus. We propose debt trails to transcend and bridge these areas. Methodo…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Finance (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Debt (2 works) · Global Financial Regulation and Crises (2 works)