Financialization : : Relational Approaches / / ed. by Don Kalb, Chris Hann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Barrett, Tristam,; Bruckermann, Charlotte,; Buier, Natalia,; Davey, Ryan,; Hann, Chris,; James, Deborah,; Kalb, Don,; Kar, Sohini,; Kofti, Dimitra,; Mikuš, Marek,; Morell, Marc,; Myhre, Knut Christian,; Pitluck, Aaron Z.,; Robbins, Richard H.,; Smith, Gavin,; Weiss, Hadas,
• HerausgeberIn: Hann, Chris,; Kalb, Don,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction. Transitions to What? On the Social Relations of Financialization in Anthropology and History -- Chapter 1. Financialization, Plutocracy, and the Debtor’s Economy: Consequences and Limits -- Chapter 2. Accumulation by Saturation: Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion, Cash Transfers, and Financial Flows in India -- Chapter 3. Green Infrastructure as Financialized Utopia: Carbon Offset Forests in China -- Chapter 4. Altering the Trajectory of Finance: Meaning-Making and Control in Malaysian Islamic Investment Banks -- Chapter 5. Financialization and Reproduction in Baku, Azerbaijan -- Chapter 6. Financialization and the Norwegian State: Constraints, Contestations, and Custodial Finance in the World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund -- Chapter 7. Capital’s Fidelity: Financialization in the German Social Market Economy -- Chapter 8. Redistribution and Indebtedness: A Tale of Two Settings -- Chapter 9. Retail Finance and the Moral Dimension of Class: Debt Advice on an English Housing Estate -- Chapter 10. Making Debt Work: Devising and Debating Debt Collection in Croatia -- Chapter 11. Financialized Kinship and Challenges for the Greek Oikos -- Chapter 12. Financialized Landscapes and Transport Infrastructure: The Case of Ciudad Valdeluz -- Chapter 13. Housing Financialization in Majorcan Holiday Rentals -- Afterword. Financialization Beyond Crisis -- Index