Time, role of the past and varieties of fictional expectations: comments on Jens Beckert’s Imagined futures

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Notes on contributors

Alya Guseva is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and has researched consumer credit and reproductive markets, and household economies. Her work appeared in American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Socio-Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Social Science Research and Journal of Family Issues. She is the author and co-author of two books on emerging credit card markets in the postcommunist region – Into the red: The birth of the credit card market in postcommunist Russia and Plastic money: Constructing markets for credit cards in eight postcommunist countries (with Akos Rona-Tas), both with Stanford University Press. She is currently pursuing a project on markets for commercial surrogacy in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Heather Mooney is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. She has an MA in Gender Studies and MS in Education from Simmons College. Heather’s previous work focuses on gender, transnational markets, and neoliberalism. Her current research projects analyse death, race, stigma, and place.