Curating reflexivity: industry events and the performative politics of alternative finance

Marco Andreu, Ruben Kremers and Lena Rethel

New Political Economy, 2025, vol. 30, issue 2, 240-253

Abstract: This article examines the role of industry events in curating reflexivity within the financial sector. Through an examination of industry events related to impact bonds and Islamic finance, it identifies three important mechanisms through which reflexivity is curated. First, industry events act as foundational frames, creating historical narratives and origin stories that conjure up a shared sense of social purpose and direction amongst professionals from different backgrounds; second, they act as deliberative spaces where market rationalities are presented, challenged, and negotiated; and third, they act as networking nodes where alternative market subjectivities are cultivated, validated, and shaped. Together, we argue, these three mechanisms perform a politics of reflexivity within alternative finance. In contrast to investigations arguing that alternative finance seeks to silence political confrontation, our work reveals that it is the very performance of dissent and outside voices at such events that creates credibility, and stability.

Date: 2025
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