Dr. Hossein to Speak at Carlton University
Carlton University’s Department of Political Science will host Dr. Caroline Hossein for a research seminar entitled The Banker Ladies and the Power of the Informal
When: Monday November 17th, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Where: A602 Loeb Building (Campus map here)
Cost: Free, but please register.
More information and register here
This lecture draws on empirical work that involves interviews with hundreds of Black women in the Caribbean, Canada as well as in Ghana and Ethiopia of her recently published book, The Banker Ladies. This research also calls out the erasure, the citational blindness and harms happening to feminist scholars doing this kind of anti-capitalist research. In valuing informal institutions, as well as acknowledging and remunerating the work of the Banker Ladies is a move towards inclusive financial economies, and by extension it can revolutionize the field of international development.