Money at the Margins (eBook)

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.

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.

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.

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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