Financialization: Relational Approaches: 6 (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy)

ISBN 10: 1789207517 ISBN 13: 9781789207514

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2020

Synopsis

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship, how it adapts to non-Western religious traditions, and how it reconfigures legal and ecological dimensions of social organization, and urban social relations in general. Central themes include the indebtedness of individuals and households, the impact of digital technologies, the struggle for housing, financial education, and political contestation.

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About the Authors

Chris Hann is a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His most recent book is Repatriating Polányi. Market Society in the Visegrád States (Central European University Press, 2019).

Don Kalb is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, where he leads the Frontlines of Value project. Recent publications include Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality, co-edited with James G. Carrier (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning co-edited with Massimiliano Mollona (Berghahn Books, 2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789207517
• ISBN 13: 9781789207514
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Hann Chris, Kalb Don