Open AccessMaking Markets and Constructing Crises: A Review of Ho’s Liquidated
Author(s) -
Alexandra B. Cox
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1786
Subject(s) - ethnography , autoethnography , interpretation (philosophy) , sociology , order (exchange) , media studies , gender studies , anthropology , linguistics , business , philosophy , finance
This book review is a beginning academic researcher’s interpretation of the robust methods and rich data Ho presents in her study of investment banking culture and the market in Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2009). A unique contribution of the text is Ho’s combining of ethnographic methods in order to practice polymorphous engagement in her study. A weakness of the text is Ho’s lacking autoethnographic analysis of her experience as an Asian American woman on Wall Street. The book will be helpful for a scholarly audience interested in studying rigorous ethnographic methodologies and exploring the culture of Wall Street.