Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia /

Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia / / ed. by Lan Anh Hoang, Cheryll Alipio.

This volume provides original, nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral economies of Asia. Through case studies from South and Southeast Asia, the collection sheds important light on how the new mobilities and wealth created by neoliberal globalization transform people'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Alipio, Cheryll,
Ang, Sylvia,
DeFillipo, Cassie,
Gomes, Catherine,
Hoang, Lan Anh,
Horat, Esther,
Huijsmans, Roy,
Singh, Supriya,
Tan, Jonathan,
Zhang, Juan,
HerausgeberIn:
Alipio, Cheryll,
Hoang, Lan Anh,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Transforming Asia ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Money and Moralities. Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights
  • Part I. Money and Moral Selfhood in the Market Economy
  • 2. The Moral Economy of Casino Work in Singapore
  • 3. Mobility and Flexible Moralities. Insights from the Case Study of Vietnamese Market Traders in Moscow
  • 4. 'Billions and the Retrogression of Knowledge'? Wealth, Modernity, and Ethical Citizenship in a Northern Vietnamese Trading Village
  • Part II. Social Currencies and the Morality of Gender
  • 5. House, Car, or Permanent Residency? Higher-Wage Chinese Migrant Men's Flexible Masculinities in Singapore
  • 6. 'Your Vagina is a Rice Paddy'. Hegemonic Femininities and the Evolving Moralities of Sex in Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 7. The Gender and Morality of Money in the Indian Transnational Family
  • Part III. The Social Life of Money in Asian Moral Economies
  • 8. Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations. 'Morality-in-Motion' among Young People in the Philippines
  • 9. Christianity as the Sixth Aspirational 'C'. Megachurches and the Changing Landscape of Religion, Prosperity, and Wealth in Singapore
  • 10. Cash, Women, and the Nation. Tales of Morality about Lao Banknotes in Times of Rapid Change
  • Epilogue
  • 11. Engendering Money and Morality in Asia
  • Index

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