Edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan V. Small

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more—as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a potential solution to the issue of financial inclusion. How, if at all, do new forms of dematerialized money impact people’s everyday financial lives? In what way do technologies interact with financial repertoires and other socio-cultural institutions? How do these technologies of financial inclusion shape the global politics and geographies of difference and inequality? These questions are at the heart of Money at the Margins, a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

 

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 Haiti–Dominican Republic Border 
  Erin B. Taylor and Heather A. Horst
• Chapter 2. Capital Mobilization among the 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. Dhukuti 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

• 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

 

• 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
• Chapter 12. Effects of Mobile Banking on the Savings Practices of Low-Income Users: The Indian Experience 
  Mani A. Nandhi
• Chapter 13. Betting on Chance in Colombia: Using Empirical Evidence on Game Networks to Develop Practical Design Guidelines 
  Ana María Echeverry and Coppelia Herrán Cuartas