Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 242
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-1-4422-1355-5 • Hardback • October 2013 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-1-4422-1356-2 • Paperback • October 2013 • $44.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-4422-1357-9 • eBook • October 2013 • $41.50 • (£35.00)
Supriya Singh is professor of the sociology of communications at RMIT University.
Chapter 1: Money: Historical, Social, and Cultural Dimensions
Chapter 2: Globalization and Technologies
Chapter 3: Half the World Is Unbanked
Chapter 4: Women, Money, and Globalization
Chapter 5: Banking: Connecting Markets and Intimate Lives
Chapter 6: Electronic Money: Information and Timeliness
Chapter 7: Mobile Money: The Power of Immediacy
Chapter 8: Migrant Money: Intertwining the Global and Personal
Chapter 9: Rethinking Money, Technology, and Globalization
Globalization and new technologies are transforming the world of money. In this pioneering study, Supriya Singh offers a sweeping and compelling account of those changes. A book that will inspire researchers, inform policy makers, and fascinate students and general readers.
— Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University; author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
Money is changing—in its flows, its figurings, its very form. Supriya Singh’s marvelous book demonstrates how much of this change today is coming from the global South. From remittance flows that challenge easy understandings of GDP, gender, and family to the global spread of mobile computing—backed by powerful corporate, philanthropic, and government interests but just as much by everyday people’s own wishes, desires, and dramas—this book charts a course for a new global sociology of money for the twenty-first century.
— Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine
Ideal for courses in global studies
Using money as a means of explaining globalization resonates with students and their own use of money
The personal and intimate discussion of relationships between people is compelling
Offers an imaginative way to help students understand the extent and diversity of globalization
Deals with the evolving relationship to money (e.g., remittances) triggered by globalization
Allows students to see the connection between theory and practice by connecting the role of money in globalization to such intimate topics as marriage