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Book Synopsis Cashless infrastructures are rapidly increasing, as credit cards, cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, demonetization, and digitalization process replace coins and currencies around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities. Drawing from a wide range of ethnographic studies, this volume offers a concise look at how social actors and intermediaries respond to this change in the materiality of money throughout multiple regional contexts.
Trade Review “[The book] truly succeeds as a ‘provocation,’ as a volume of critical interventions on the quickly evolving transformations in global finch and their implications for the indebted marginalised now drawn into their financial web.” • Anthropos
Table of Contents Foreword
Keith Hart
Introduction
Atreyee Sen and Johan Lindquist
Section 1: Cashlessness and New Debt Relations
Chapter 1. Exclusively Simple: The Impact of Cashless Initiatives on Homeless Roma in Denmark
Camilla Ravnbol
Chapter 2. Debt and Dirty Names: Tracing Cashlessness and Urban Marginality in Brazil
Marie Kolling
Chapter 3. ‘Debt is What Happens, While...’ The Emerging Field of Digital Finance and Precaritization in Everyday Lives of Young Danes
Pernille Hohnen
Chapter 4. Plastic Promises: Credit and Debt in Emerging Cashless Economies
Filippo Osella
Section 2: Cashlessness and New Infrastructures
Chapter 5. Ecologies of Immateriality: Remittances and the Cashless Allure
Ivan Small
Chapter 6. ‘Cards Are for Showing off’: Aesthetics of Cashlessness and Intermediation among the Urban Poor in Delhi
Emilija Zabiliūtė
Chapter 7. BoB and the Blockchain Anticipatory infrastructures of the cashless society
Michael Ulfstjerne
Chapter 8. As Above, So Below: On the Democratization of Demonetization
Gustav Peebles
Section 3: Cashless Frictions and New Monetary Transitions
Chapter 9. Borrowing from the Poor: Informal Labour, Shifting Debt Relations and the Demonetization Crisis in Urban India
Atreyee Sen
Chapter 10. 500 Euro Notes: On Mafias, Precarity, and Analytical Priorities
Theodoros Rakopoulos
Chapter 11. At One with the Goods: The Politics of Liquidity on Ulaanbaatar’s Market Scene
Morten Axel Pedersen
Chapter 12. Money in the Mattress and Bodies in the Market: Reflections on the Material
Inger Sjorslev
