Money at the Margins

Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-048-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: The Human Economy

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more—as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a potential solution to the issue of financial inclusion. How, if at all, do new forms of dematerialized money impact people’s everyday financial lives? In what way do technologies interact with financial repertoires and other socio-cultural institutions? How do these technologies of financial inclusion shape the global politics and geographies of difference and inequality? These questions are at the heart of Money at the Margins, a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maurer, Bill

Musaraj, Smoki

Small, Ivan V.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins

Smoki Musaraj and Ivan V. Small

PART I: IN/EXCLUSION

The Question of Inclusion

Ananya Roy

Chapter 1. A Living Fence: Financial Inclusion and Exclusion on the Haitian-Dominican Republic Border

Erin B. Taylor and Heather A. Horst

Chapter 2. Capital Mobilization among Somali Refugee Business Community in Nairobi, Kenya

Kenneth Omeje and John Mwangi Githigaro

Chapter 3. The Use of Mobile-Money Technology among Vulnerable Populations in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges for Poverty Reduction

Ndunge Kiiti and Jane Wanza Mutinda

PART II: VALUE AND WEALTH

What do Value and Wealth Do? “Life” Goes On, Whatever “Life” Is.

Jane I. Guyer

Chapter 4. Dhikuti Economies: The Moral and Social Ecologies of Rotating Finance in the Kathmandu Valley

Sepideh Azarshahri Bajracharya

Chapter 5. Chiastic Currency Spheres: Postsocialist “Conversions” in Cuba’s Dual Economy

Mrinalini Tankha

Chapter 6. Carola and Saraswathi: Juggling Wealth in India and in Mexico

Magadalena Villarreal, Isabelle Guérin, and K. S. Santosh Kumar

PART III: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL RELATIONS

Infrastructures of Digital Money

Jenna Burrell

Chapter 7. ‘Financial Inclusion Means Your Money Isn’t With You’: Conflicts over Social Grants and Financial Services in South Africa

Kevin P. Donovan

Chapter 8. Social Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya

Sibel Kusimba, Gabriel Kunyu, and Elizabeth Gross

Chapter 9. Accounting in the Margin: Financial Ecologies in between Big and Small Data

José Ossandón, Tomás Ariztía, Macarena Barros, and Camila Peralta

PART IV: DESIGN AND PRACTICE

Design and Practice

Joshua E. Blumenstock

Chapter 10. Understanding Social Relations and Payments among Rural Ethiopians

Woldmariam F. Mesfin

Chapter 11. Delivering Cash Grants to Indigenous Peoples through Cash Cards versus Over-the-Counter Modalities: The Case of the 4Ps Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Palawan, Philippines

Anatoly "Jing" Gusto and Emily Roque

Chapter 12. Effects of Mobile Banking on the Savings Practices of Low Income Users: The Indian Experience

Mani A. Nandhi

Chapter 13. Betting on Chance in Colombia: Using Empirical Work on Game Networks to Develop Practical Design Guidelines

Ana María Echeverry and Coppelia Herrán Cuartas

Afterword

Bill Maurer

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Musaraj, Smoki
Smoki Musaraj is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of Study of the Anthropology Honors Tutorial Program at Ohio University. She has published in various scholarly journals, including Cultural Anthropology, Ethnologie Française, Përpjekja, Anthropology of East Europe Review, and Current Anthropology.

Small, Ivan V.
Ivan V. Small is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Central Connecticut State University. He is author of Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam (Cornell University Press, 2018). He has consulted for various think tanks, foundations and nonprofit organizations including the Smithsonian, India China Institute, Ford Foundation, and World Policy Institute.

Maurer, Bill
Bill Maurer is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine. He is the Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI), and author of How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money (2015) among many other publications.

Bill Maurer is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine. He is the Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI), and author of How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money (2015) among many other publications.