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Money at the Margins

Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design
Buch | Hardcover
334 Seiten
2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-653-9 (ISBN)
133,40 inkl. MwSt
Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.
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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Human Economy
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzwissenschaft
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-78533-653-3 / 1785336533
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-653-9 / 9781785336539
Zustand Neuware
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