Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an increased interest in the social performance of power in international political sociology. At the same time, recent years have seen the growing popularity of event ethnographic research approaches. In this article, we develop the concept of “curated power” as a tool to explore the performative enactment of power at and through conferences and events. A focus on curated power, we argue, can orient scholars of performative power toward conferences and events as an analytical entry point, and orient event ethnographic approaches toward the performance of classed, gendered, and racialized hierarchies as a central research concern. To develop these points, and to illustrate the analytical purchase of the concept, we provide a concrete example of its application by analyzing the performative enactment of social hierarchies at industry events in two alternative financial subsectors: FinTech and Islamic finance. In both sectors, we show that curated power can provide a situated and nuanced understanding of why and how corporate efforts to change finance for the better—whether on the basis of religious principles or advanced technological capabilities—often remain complicit in perpetuating classed, gendered, and racialized hierarchies.

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策划的力量：（行业）事件的表演政治

自世纪之交以来，国际政治社会学对权力的社会表现越来越感兴趣。与此同时，近年来事件民族志研究方法日益流行。在本文中，我们提出了“策划权力”的概念，作为探索会议和活动中以及通过会议和活动来表演权力的工具。我们认为，对策划权力的关注可以引导研究表演权力的学者将会议和活动作为分析切入点，并将事件民族志方法引导至阶级、性别和种族等级制度的表现作为中心研究关注点。为了阐述这些观点，并说明该概念的分析购买，我们通过分析两个另类金融子行业（金融科技和伊斯兰金融）的行业活动中社会等级制度的表演性制定，提供了其应用的具体示例。在这两个领域，我们表明，精心策划的权力可以提供一种情境化、细致入微的理解，说明企业为改善金融状况所做的努力为何以及如何——无论是基于宗教原则还是先进的技术能力——往往仍然是延续阶级、性别、性别歧视的同谋。和种族化的等级制度。