Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion and Design
Edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small
304 pages, 22 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78533-653-9 $130.00/£92.00 Hb Forthcoming (February 2018)
eISBN 978-1-78533-654-6 eBook Forthcoming (February 2018)
“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
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.
The book is Volume 6 of the Human Economy Series, edited by Keith Hart and John Sharp.
Bill Maurer is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine.
Smoki Musaraj is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University.
Ivan Small is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Central Connecticut State University.
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins by Smoki Musaraj and Ivan Small
PART I: IN/EX "CLUSION"
The Question of Inclusion by Ananya Roy
Chapter 1. A Living Fence: Mobility and Financial Inclusion on the Haitian-Dominican Border by Erin B. Taylor and Heather Horst
Chapter 2. Capital Mobilization among Somali Refugee Business Community in Nairobi, Kenya by Kenneth Omeje and John Mwangi
Chapter 3. The Use of Mobile Money Technology among Vulnerable Populations in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges for Poverty Reduction by Ndunge Kiiti and Jane Wanza Mutinda
PART II: VALUE AND WEALTH
What do Value and Wealth DO? “Life” goes on, whatever “life” is. by Jane I. Guyer
Chapter 4. Dhikuti Economies: The Moral and Social Ecologies of Rotating Finance in the Kathmandu Valley by Sepideh Bajracharya
Chapter 5. Chiastic Currency Spheres: Postsocialist “Conversions” in Cuba’s Dual Economy by Mrinalini Tankha
Chapter 6. Carola and Saraswathi: Juggling wealth in India and in Mexico by Magadalena Villarreal and Isabelle Guérin
PART III: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
Infrastructures of Digital Money by Jenna Burrell
Chapter 7. ‘Financial Inclusion Means Your Money Isn’t With You’: Conflicts over Social Grants and Financial Services in South Africa by Kevin Donovan
Chapter 8. Social Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya by Sibel Kusimba, Gabriel Kunyu and Elizabeth Gross
Chapter 9. Accounting in the Margin: Financial Ecologies in between Big and Small Data by José Ossandón, Tomás Ariztía, Macarena Barros and Camila Peralta
PART IV: DESIGN AND PRACTICE
Design and Practice by Josh Blumenstock
Chapter 10. Understanding Social Relations and Payments among Rural Ethiopians by 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 by Anatoly ‘Jing’ Gusto and Emily Roque
Chapter 12. Effects of Mobile Banking on the Savings Practices of Low Income Users: The Indian Experience by Mani A. Nandhi
Chapter 13. Betting on Chance in Colombia: Using empirical work on game networks to develop practical design guidelines by Ana María Echeverry Villa and Coppelia Herrán Cuartas
Afterword by Bill Maurer
Available at Berghahn Books (Feb 2018): www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MaurerMoney
EBook available on Kindle through Amazon (Feb 2018): www.amazon.com/Money-Margins-Perspectives-Technology-Financial-ebook/dp/B07423FQXM
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