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This book examines rotating savings and credit associations, especially those organized by women of colour. The chapters provide studies on the organization and use of these associations in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.
List of contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1: Caroline Shenaz Hossein and Christabell P.J.: An Introduction: ROSCAs as Living Proof of Diverse Community Economies
- I Latin America and the Caribbean
- 2: Belinda Román, Samiré Adam, and Ana Paula Saravia: Learning about Money Cooperatives: The Modern Juntas in Peru
- 3: Caroline Shenaz Hossein: Caribbean Women s Use of Susu, Partner, Sol and Box-hand as Quiet Resistance
- II Africa
- 4: Salewa Olawoye-Mann: Alajo Shomolu: Money, Credit and Banking the Nigerian Ajo Way
- 5: Samuel Kwaku Bonsu: Mother, Here Is Your Stone: The Story of Susu in Ghana
- 6: Ann Armstrong: Stokvels: A South African Innovation in Economic Justice for Women
- 7: Haddy Njie: Community Building and Ubuntu: Using Osusu in the Kangbeng-Kafoo Women s Group in The Gambia
- III South East Asia and India
- 8: Istvan Rado and Seri Thongmak: A Quiet Resistance: Karen Woman Entrepreneurs Leading Savings Groups in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
- 9: Ririn Haryani and Kelly Dombroski: Arisan: Producing Economies of Care in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 10: Nga Dao: Money Pool (H¿i/H¿) in the Mekong Delta: An Old Way of Doing Finance in Rural Vietnam
- 11: Christabell P.J.: Keralite Women s Collective Finance in South India: The Kudumbashree Movement and Indigenous Finance
- 12: Caroline Shenaz Hossein and Mary Njeri Kinyanjui: Conclusion: Indigeneity, Politicized Consciousness and Lived Experience in Community Economies
About the author
Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Associate Professor of Global Development and Political Science at the Department of Global Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough. She is the author of the award winning Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas (University of Toronto Press, 2016). She is the editor of The Black Social Economy: Exploring Community-Based Diverse Markets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is the Founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective.
Christabell P.J. is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Kerala. She has held faculty positions at a number of institutions in India and at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. She is the author of Women Empowerment Through Capacity Building: The Role of Micro-Finance (Concept, 2009) and Inclusive Growth Through Social Capital Formation: Is Microfinance an Effective Tool for Targeting Women? (Concept, 2016), and has contributed chapters to edited volumes, published research papers in academic journals, and written popular articles in magazines.
Summary
This book examines rotating savings and credit associations, especially those organized by women of colour. The chapters provide studies on the organization and use of these associations in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.
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The book is a success in prompting the reader to rethink multiple forms of community economies...The book enables the imagination of the emergence of 'dual power', a condition when these organic peoples' institutions come together and expand into new political structures and spaces of new consciousness.
