Overview

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.

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Author:   Atreyee Sen ,  Johan Lindquist ,  Marie Kolling ,  Keith Hart
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   19
ISBN:  

9781789209150

ISBN 10:   1789209153
Pages:   158
Publication Date:   01 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Keith Hart Introduction Atreyee Sen and Johan Lindquist Section 1: Cashlessness and New Debt Relations Chapter 1. Exclusively Simple: The Impact of Cashless Initiatives on Homeless Roma in Denmark Camilla Ravnbol Chapter 2. Debt and Dirty Names: Tracing Cashlessness and Urban Marginality in Brazil Marie Kolling Chapter 3. 'Debt is What Happens, While...' The Emerging Field of Digital Finance and Precaritization in Everyday Lives of Young Danes Pernille Hohnen Chapter 4. Plastic Promises: Credit and Debt in Emerging Cashless Economies Filippo Osella Section 2: Cashlessness and New Infrastructures Chapter 5. Ecologies of Immateriality: Remittances and the Cashless Allure Ivan Small Chapter 6. 'Cards Are for Showing off': Aesthetics of Cashlessness and Intermediation among the Urban Poor in Delhi Emilija Zabiliute Chapter 7. BoB and the Blockchain Anticipatory infrastructures of the cashless society Michael Ulfstjerne Chapter 8. As Above, So Below: On the Democratization of Demonetization Gustav Peebles Section 3: Cashless Frictions and New Monetary Transitions Chapter 9. Borrowing from the Poor: Informal Labour, Shifting Debt Relations and the Demonetization Crisis in Urban India Atreyee Sen Chapter 10. 500 Euro Notes: On Mafias, Precarity, and Analytical Priorities Theodoros Rakopoulos Chapter 11. At One with the Goods: The Politics of Liquidity on Ulaanbaatar's Market Scene Morten Axel Pedersen Chapter 12. Money in the Mattress and Bodies in the Market: Reflections on the Material Inger Sjorslev

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“[The book] truly succeeds as a ‘provocation,’ as a volume of critical interventions on the quickly evolving transformations in global finch and their implications for the indebted marginalised now drawn into their financial web.” • Anthropos

[The book] truly succeeds as a 'provocation,' as a volume of critical interventions on the quickly evolving transformations in global finch and their implications for the indebted marginalised now drawn into their financial web. * Anthropos

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Atreyee Sen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

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