Index

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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

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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