Who’s Cashing In?

Download or read book Who’s Cashing In? written by Atreyee Sen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cashless infrastructures are rapidly increasing, as credit cards, cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, demonetization, and digitalization process replace coins and currencies around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities. Drawing from a wide range of ethnographic studies, this volume offers a concise look at how social actors and intermediaries respond to this change in the materiality of money throughout multiple regional contexts.