Financialization

Chris Hann is a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His most recent book is Repatriating Polanyi. Market Society in the Visegrad States (Central European University Press, 2019).Don Kalb is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, where he leads the Frontlines of Value project. Recent publications include Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality, co-edited with James G. Carrier (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning co-edited with Massimiliano Mollona (Berghahn Books, 2018).

"[This volume] shows how financialization and its social consequences can take rather different forms in different places... a solid foundation for a consideration of the basic nature of financialization and its effects." James G. Carrier, Indiana University Bloomington"This is a very strong collection... the attempt to provide an anthropological understanding of contemporary financialization that goes beyond merely describing how variable it is, is highly welcome." Keir Martin, University of Oslo

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceChris HannIntroduction: Transitions to What? On the Social Relations of Financialization in Anthropology and HistoryDon KalbChapter 1. Financialization, Plutocracy and the Debtor's Economy: Consequences and LimitsRichard H. RobbinsChapter 2. Accumulation by Saturation: Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion, Cash Transfers, and Financial Flows in IndiaSohini KarChapter 3. Green Infrastructure as Financialized Utopia: Carbon Offset Forests in ChinaCharlotte BruckermannChapter 4. Altering the Trajectory of Finance: Meaning-making and Control in Malaysian Islamic Investment BanksAaron Z. PitluckChapter 5. Financialization and Reproduction in Baku, AzerbaijanTristam BarrettChapter 6. Financialization and the Norwegian State: Constraints, Contestations, and Custodial Finance in the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth FundKnut Christian MyhreChapter 7. Capital's Fidelity: Financialization in the German Social Market EconomyHadas WeissChapter 8. Redistribution and Indebtedness: A Tale of Two SettingsDeborah JamesChapter 9. Retail Finance and the Moral Dimension of Class: Debt Advice on an English Housing EstateRyan DaveyChapter 10. Making Debt Work: Devising and Debating Debt Collection in CroatiaMarek MikusChapter 11. Financialized Kinship and Challenges for the Greek OikosDimitra KoftiChapter 12. Financialized Landscapes and Transport Infrastructure: The Case of Ciudad ValdeluzNatalia BuierChapter 13. Housing Financialization in Majorcan Holiday RentalsMarc MorellAfterword: Financialization Beyond CrisisGavin SmithIndex