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Informationen zum Autor Bill Maurer is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine. He is the Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI), and author of How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money (2015) among many other publications. Smoki Musaraj is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of Study of the Anthropology Honors Tutorial Program at Ohio University. She has published in various scholarly journals, including Cultural Anthropology , Ethnologie Française , Përpjekja , Anthropology of East Europe Review , and Current Anthropology . Ivan V. Small is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Houston. He is author of Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam (Cornell University Press, 2019). He has consulted for various think tanks, foundations and nonprofit organizations including the Yusof Ishak Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Smithsonian, India China Institute, Ford Foundation, and World Policy Institute. Klappentext Technology for the Poor / in the developing world Social studies of monetary behavior Human Design centered with a focus on context Rethinking technological development / financial inclusion solutions Zusammenfassung Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins Smoki Musaraj and Ivan V. Small PART I: IN/EXCLUSION The Question of Inclusion Ananya Roy Chapter 1. A Living Fence: Financial Inclusion and Exclusion on the Haitian-Dominican Republic Border Erin B. Taylor and Heather A. Horst Chapter 2. Capital Mobilization among Somali Refugee Business Community in Nairobi, Kenya Kenneth Omeje and John Mwangi Githigaro Chapter 3. The Use of Mobile-Money Technology among Vulnerable Populations in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges for Poverty Reduction Ndunge Kiiti and Jane Wanza Mutinda PART II: VALUE AND WEALTH What do Value and Wealth Do? "Life" Goes On, Whatever "Life" Is. Jane I. Guyer Chapter 4. Dhikuti Economies: The Moral and Social Ecologies of Rotating Finance in the Kathmandu Valley Sepideh Azarshahri Bajracharya Chapter 5. Chiastic Currency Spheres: Postsocialist "Conversions" in Cuba's Dual Economy Mrinalini Tankha Chapter 6. Carola and Saraswathi: Juggling Wealth in India and in Mexico Magadalena Villarreal, Isabelle Guérin, and K. S. Santosh Kumar PART III: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL RELATIONS Infrastructures of Digital Money Jenna Burrell Chapter 7. 'Financial Inclusion Means Your Money Isn't With You': Conflicts over Social Grants and Financial Services in South Africa Kevin P. Donovan Chapter 8. Social Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya Sibel Kusimba, Gabriel Kunyu, and Elizabeth Gross Chapter 9. Accounting in the Margin: Financial Ecologies in between Big and Small Data José Ossandón, Tomás Ariztía, Macarena Barros, and Camila Peralta PART IV: DESIGN AND PRACTICE Design and Practice Joshua E. Blumenstock Chapter 10. Understanding Social Relations and Payments among Rural Ethiopians 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 Anatoly "Jing" Gusto and Emily Roque Cha...
