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Recovering “Lay Ignorance” in the Stanford Financial Group Ponzi Scheme
Social Forces ( IF 5.866 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-24 , DOI: 10.1093/sf/soab054
Camilo Arturo Leslie 1
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The Stanford Financial Group’s 2009 collapse devastated more than 20,000 depositors across the Americas. News stories portrayed the $7.2 billion fraud as an elaborate production of ignorance, and its middle-class marks as silent dupes. Media accounts thus differed little from dominant schools of ignorance scholarship, which have emphasized how powerful organizations use their expertise to foist ignorance on passive publics. However, the notion that laypeople are voiceless in such processes is empirically and theoretically untenable. Drawing on interviews with 103 defrauded Stanford clients in the US and Venezuela, this article shows that laypeople play an active interpretive and storytelling role in producing “lay ignorance” in the course of transacting with institutions, personnel, technologies, or products they lack the means to comprehend. Repurposing the concept of “jurisdiction,” I frame “layperson” as a role marked by its distance from the forms of authority that comprise expertise. As my comparison of US and Venezuelan investors reveals, laypeople nonetheless stitch surrogate forms of normative and epistemic authority from inapposite sources to produce their “lay ignorance.” The resulting accounts, I demonstrate, draw opportunistically from laypeople’s institutional, cultural, and political contexts.

中文翻译:

在斯坦福金融集团庞氏骗局中恢复“外行无知”

斯坦福金融集团 2009 年的倒闭摧毁了整个美洲的 20,000 多名储户。新闻报道将这 72 亿美元的欺诈行为描述为无知的精心制作,并将其中产阶级标记为沉默的骗子。因此,媒体报道与主要的无知学术流派几乎没有什么不同,后者强调强大的组织如何利用他们的专业知识将无知强加给被动的公众。然而,外行人在这样的过程中没有发言权的观点在经验上和理论上都是站不住脚的。本文通过对美国和委内瑞拉 103 名受骗斯坦福大学客户的采访表明,外行人在与他们缺乏手段的机构、人员、技术或产品进行交易的过程中,在制造“外行无知”方面发挥着积极的解释和讲故事的作用理解。重新利用“管辖权”的概念,我将“外行”定义为一个角色,其特点是与包括专业知识的权威形式相距甚远。正如我对美国和委内瑞拉投资者的比较所揭示的那样,外行人仍然从不合适的来源缝合了规范和认知权威的替代形式,以产生他们的“外行无知”。我证明,由此产生的叙述机会主义地借鉴了外行的制度、文化和政治背景。
更新日期:2021-04-24
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