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List 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
About the author
Atreyee Sen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
Summary
Who's Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities in multiple regional contexts.