Full Description
This Encyclopedia presents insights into societal change through the lens of economic anthropology. Interdisciplinary in scope, it outlines emerging themes in the field and explicitly connects theoretical debates to in-depth empirical evidence.
Experts in the field provide ethnographic examples to explore contemporary and pioneering works in cultural and social economic analysis, looking ahead to the future of economic anthropology. Building on the history of the discipline, the Encyclopedia captures the latest concepts and examines how they can be used to develop new ways of thinking about the economy.
Key Features:
Highlights how conflict in society is related to capitalism, markets, and values
Showcases new lines of inquiry through innovative studies from diverse scholarly and geographical areas
Analyzes the relationship between theory and method, shedding light on the function of the economy as part of society and culture
57 entries covering varied themes including energy, climate finance, responsible innovation, gender, entrepreneurship, and international development
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology is a vital reference for scholars and students of anthropology, social sciences, and economic psychology. It is also a beneficial resource for policymakers and practitioners in economics and finance.
Contents
Contents
Introduction: the porous boundaries of a discipline 1
Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas Holmes, and Coco Kanters
PART I NATURAL RESOURCES
Introduction: natural resources 7
Erik Bähre
1 Valuing nature 9
Marja Spierenburg
2 Value in post-conflict landscapes 14
Paola Filippucci
3 Gold mining 19
Sabine Luning
4 Energy 24
Cymene Howe
5 Crisis 30
Tim van de Meerendonk
6 Climate finance 35
Aneil Tripathy
7 Water as frontier of financialization 40
Andrea Muehlebach
8 Subsistence decision making 45
Bram Tucker
PART II CORPORATIONS AND EMERGING MARKETS
Introduction: corporations and emerging markets 51
Douglas R. Holmes
1 The corporation 54
David A. Westbrook
2 The curious case of ooperatives 58
Lilith Mahmud
3 Video games 63
Joshua Reno
4 Special economic zones 68
Patrick Neveling
5 Alternative currency designers 72
Coco Kanters
6 Islam and capitalism 78
Daromir Rudnyckyj
7 Christianity, finance, and new market experts 83
Anna-Riikka Kauppinen
8 Insurance 88
Erik Bähre
PART III ECONOMIES OF CARE
Introduction: economies of care 94
Cristina Grasseni
1 Care 97
Tabea Häberlein and Erdmute Alber
2 Food cooperatives 102
Celia Plender
3 The economy of hope 107
Hirokazu Miyazaki
4 Solidarity economy: from economic framework to worlding politics 111
Boone W. Shear
5 Exhaustion 117
Federico De Musso
6 Food banks 122
Ewa Kopczyńska
7 Self-help groups in the age of FinTech 127
Daivi Rodima-Taylor
8 Alternative food networks and Karl Polanyi 132
Maris Boyd Gillette
PART IV SCALE AND GLOBAL CIRCULATIONS
Introduction: scale and global circulations 138
Cristina Grasseni
1 Global hierarchy of value 140
Michael Herzfeld
2 Commodity certification and cultural valorization in global markets 145
Joana Nascimento
3 Container capitalism 150
Hege Høyer Leivestad
4 Violence and the global economy 155
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
5 Responsible (research and) innovation 160
Jonathan P. Hankins
6 Making 165
Cristina Grasseni
7 Entrepreneurship and the future 171
Joost Beuving
PART V ECONOMIES OF STATECRAFT
Introduction: economies of statecraft 177
Erik Bähre
1 Technology of money 179
Douglas R. Holmes
2 Economies of international development 184
Maia Green
3 Post-peasants of Eastern Europe 190
Juraj Buzalka
4 Retail finance, mortgage lending, and risk 195
Marek Mikuš
5 Governing the fiscal subject 202
Nicolette Makovicky
6 Fiscal politics 207
Robin Smith
7 Deservingness 212
Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tošić
PART VI GENDERED ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Introduction: gendered economic relations 218
Erik Bähre
1 Key symbols of gender and money 220
Sibel Kusimba
2 Queer Marxian perspectives 226
Andreas Streinzer and Ryan Davey
3 Post-work 231
Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen
4 Family businesses and businesses as family 235
Elena Sischarenco
5 Divorce 240
Norah Kiereri
6 Dignity 244
Loïc Pignolo
7 The values of life 249
Irene Moretti
PART VII INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITALIZATION
Introduction: infrastructure, technology, digitalization 255
Douglas R. Holmes
1 Ports, infrastructure, and logistics 258
Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar
2 Private equity 263
Daniel Scott Souleles
3 Digital money 268
Gustav Peebles
4 Bottom lines and below-the-lines on the film set 273
Jackson Francis Malle
5 The Right to the City and informal housing 278
Sven da Silva
6 Payment systems 283
Bill Maurer
PART VIII SKILL, LABOUR, AND PRECARITY
Introduction: Skill, labour, and precarity 289
Cristina Grasseni
1 Criminal economies 291
Gabriel Feltran
2 Affective economies and post-socialisms 295
Tomasz Rakowski
3 Labor, class, and skill 300
Tom Martin
4 Working bodies 305
Rebecca Prentice
5 Precarity and poetry 310
Maghiel van Crevel
6 New labor struggles in the US Rust Belt 315
Sharryn Kasmir
