Who's cashing in? : contemporary perspectives on new monies and global cashlessness / edited by Atreyee Sen, Johan Lindquist, and Marie Kolling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sen, Atreyee, editor.

Lindquist, Johan, editor.

Kolling, Marie, editor.

Series:

Critical interventions ; 19.

Critical interventions : a forum for social analysis ; volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital currency.

Digital currency--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 164 pages ; 18 cm.

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.

Summary:

"Cashless infrastructures are rapidly increasing, as credit cards, cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, demonetization, and digitalization process replace coins and currencies around the world. Who's Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities. Drawing from a wide range of ethnographic studies, this volume offers a concise look at how social actors and intermediaries respond to this change in the materiality of money throughout multiple regional contexts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Cashlessness and New Debt Relations

Exclusively Simple: The Impact of Cashless Initiatives on Homeless Roma in Denmark / Camilla Ida Ravnbel

Debt and Dirty Names: Tracing Cashlessness and Urban Marginality in Brazil / Marie Rolling

`Debt Is What Happens, While... The Emerging Field of Digital Finance and Precaritisation in Everyday Lives of Young Danes / Pernille Hohnen

Plastic Promises: Reflections on Credit and Debt in Emerging Cashless Economies / Filippo Osella

Section 2 Cashlessness and New Infrastructures

Ecologies of Immateriality: Remittances and the Cashless Allure / Ivan V. Small

`Cards Are for Showing Off: Aesthetics of Cashlessness and Intermediation among the Urban Poor in Delhi / Emilija Zabiliute

BoB and the Blockchain: Anticipatory Infrastructures of the Cashless Society / Michael Ulfstjeme

As Above, So Below: Reflections on the Democratisation of Demonetisation / Gustav Peebles

Section 3 Cashless Frictions and New Monetary Transitions

Borrowing from the Poor: Informal Labour, Shifting Debt Relations and the Demonetisation Crisis in Urban India / Atreyee Sen

Notes on the 500 Euro: On Mafias and Instituted Precarity / Theodoros Rakopoulos

At One with the Goods: The Politics of Liquidity on Ulaanbaatar's Market Scene / Morten Axel Pedersen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789209150

1789209153

OCLC:

1152384747