Overview

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.

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Author:   Bill Maurer ,  Smoki Musaraj ,  Ivan V. Small
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   6
ISBN:  

9781785336539

ISBN 10:   1785336533
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   28 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Guerin, 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 Jose Ossandon, Tomas Ariztia, 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 Maria Echeverry and Coppelia Herran Cuartas Afterword Bill Maurer Index

Reviews

This is an insightful collection that evokes the traditional ethnographic project of studying 'out of the way' places...One of the volume's real strengths is its geographical breadth, in terms both of the cases analysed and of the authors' background. The studies are drawn from research conducted in twelve different countries on four continents: Africa, Asia, South America, and North America. * JRAI [This volume]... is a welcome addition that describes, often in vibrant detail, how people are already engaging in financial activities and how their acts of saving, loaning, hedging, and investing are intimately linked to performances of personhood, understandings of morality, and even expressions of desire... The collection offers insights for scholars and policy makers alike who are concerned with the consequences and futures of payment systems for the unbanked. The volume will also work in the classroom, as the chapters offer compelling case studies that do justice to the tremendous variation and the social complexity of people's monetary repertoires and payment systems, underscoring how the margins are not examples of failed development but rather sites that generate insight and innovation. * Current Anthropology Indispensable reading material for scholars as well as industry specialists interested in payment infrastructures and the questions of money and value, this book entails fruitful applications for classroom use. One can hope that this innovative volume will inspire a similarly creative following that continues to combine empirical and industry-based insights with those of anthropological theory, along with an inclusive platform of diverse collaborators. * American Ethnologist This very important collection adds unique ethnographic case studies from a wide variety of geographic contexts to the growing literature on financial inclusion. * Anke Schwittay, University of Sussex

This very important collection adds unique ethnographic case studies from a wide variety of geographic contexts to the growing literature on financial inclusion. * Anke Schwittay, University of Sussex

[This volume]... is a welcome addition that describes, often in vibrant detail, how people are already engaging in financial activities and how their acts of saving, loaning, hedging, and investing are intimately linked to performances of personhood, understandings of morality, and even expressions of desire... The collection offers insights for scholars and policy makers alike who are concerned with the consequences and futures of payment systems for the unbanked. The volume will also work in the classroom, as the chapters offer compelling case studies that do justice to the tremendous variation and the social complexity of people's monetary repertoires and payment systems, underscoring how the margins are not examples of failed development but rather sites that generate insight and innovation. * Current Anthropology Indispensable reading material for scholars as well as industry specialists interested in payment infrastructures and the questions of money and value, this book entails fruitful applications for classroom use. One can hope that this innovative volume will inspire a similarly creative following that continues to combine empirical and industry-based insights with those of anthropological theory, along with an inclusive platform of diverse collaborators. * American Ethnologist This very important collection adds unique ethnographic case studies from a wide variety of geographic contexts to the growing literature on financial inclusion. * Anke Schwittay, University of Sussex

Author Information

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.

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