Financialization

Chris Hann is a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His most recent book is Repatriating Polányi. Market Society in the Visegrád States (Central European University Press, 2019).

List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables



Preface

Chris Hann



Introduction: Transitions to What? On the Social Relations of Financialization in Anthropology and History

Don Kalb



Chapter 1. Financialization, Plutocracy and the Debtor’s Economy: Consequences and Limits

Richard H. Robbins



Chapter 2. Accumulation by Saturation: Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion, Cash Transfers, and Financial Flows in India

Sohini Kar



Chapter 3. Green Infrastructure as Financialized Utopia: Carbon Offset Forests in China

Charlotte Bruckermann



Chapter 4. Altering the Trajectory of Finance: Meaning-Making and Control in Malaysian Islamic Investment Banks

Aaron Z. Pitluck



Chapter 5. Financialization and Reproduction in Baku, Azerbaijan

Tristam Barrett



Chapter 6. Financialization and the Norwegian State: Constraints, Contestations, and Custodial Finance in the World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund

Knut Christian Myhre



Chapter 7. Capital’s Fidelity: Financialization in the German Social Market Economy

Hadas Weiss



Chapter 8. Redistribution and Indebtedness: A Tale of Two Settings

Deborah James

This chapter is made available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, thanks to the support of the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK (ESRC Grant ES/M003825/1 ‘An ethnography of advice: between market, society and the declining welfare state’), the Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2016-518), and the LSE Anthropology’s RIIF fund.



Chapter 9. Retail Finance and the Moral Dimension of Class: Debt Advice on an English Housing Estate

Ryan Davey



Chapter 10. Making Debt Work: Devising and Debating Debt Collection in Croatia

Marek Mikuš



Chapter 11. Financialized Kinship and Challenges for the Greek Oikos

Dimitra Kofti



Chapter 12. Financialized Landscapes and Transport Infrastructure: The Case of Ciudad Valdeluz

Natalia Buier



Chapter 13. Housing Financialization in Majorcan Holiday Rentals

Marc Morell



Afterword: Financialization Beyond Crisis

Gavin Smith



Index