Erik Bähre is Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, Netherlands. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Project Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance and author of Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township.

This work is a rich tapestry of ethnography and theory, simultaneously a narrative of various dynamics in contemporary South Africa as well as an excavation of many concepts central to economic and social inquiry.

• 1. Introduction2. An ironic analysis3. Hope and redistribution4. Penetrating a new market5. The Janus face of inclusion6. The enchantment of abstract finance7. Transforming mutualities in business8. Death as moral hazard9. Conclusion: Ironies of solidarity

Erik Bähre is Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, Netherlands. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Project Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance and author of Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township.

This work is a rich tapestry of ethnography and theory, simultaneously a narrative of various dynamics in contemporary South Africa as well as an excavation of many concepts central to economic and social inquiry.

• 1. Introduction2. An ironic analysis3. Hope and redistribution4. Penetrating a new market5. The Janus face of inclusion6. The enchantment of abstract finance7. Transforming mutualities in business8. Death as moral hazard9. Conclusion: Ironies of solidarity

Erik Bähre is Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, Netherlands. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Project Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance and author of Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township.

This work is a rich tapestry of ethnography and theory, simultaneously a narrative of various dynamics in contemporary South Africa as well as an excavation of many concepts central to economic and social inquiry.

• 1. Introduction2. An ironic analysis3. Hope and redistribution4. Penetrating a new market5. The Janus face of inclusion6. The enchantment of abstract finance7. Transforming mutualities in business8. Death as moral hazard9. Conclusion: Ironies of solidarity