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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101442213566

ISBN-139781442213562

eBay Product ID (ePID)168451119

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Number of Pages242 Pages

Publication NameGlobalization and Money : a Global South Perspective

LanguageEnglish

SubjectInternational / Economics, Globalization, International Relations / General, General

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics

AuthorSupriya Singh

SeriesGlobalization Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

ReviewsMoney 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., 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., "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

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Freshman

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal332.491724

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Table Of ContentChapter 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

SynopsisGlobalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways that empower themselves and their families. Supriya Singh argues that money as a medium of relationships across cultures is a central component of globalization. The author deftly weaves theory and individual stories to show how money is emblematic of interconnected markets, the half of the world that is unbanked, and gender disparities. She illustrates how many of the most exciting changes in harnessing people's savings; widening credit and insurance; and lowering the cost of technologies, payments and money transfers are taking place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Demonstrating how strategies to help the poor and marginalized have diffused worldwide, Singh connects the personal and the global in an important rethinking of the contours of money in an international context., Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways that empower themselves and their families. Supriya Singh argues that money as a medium of relationships across cultures is a central component of globalization. She deftly weaves theory and individual stories to show how money is emblematic of interconnected markets, the half of the world that is unbanked, and gender disparities. She shows how men's and women's banking patterns are tied to their management of money in the household. Migrants send money home to show they care for their families and communities left behind. Yet these remittances are far from symbolic; instead they represent more than three times the total amount of official development assistance. This book illustrates how many of the most exciting changes in harnessing people's savings; widening credit and insurance; and lowering the cost of technologies, payments and money transfers are taking place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Singh demonstrates how strategies to help the poor and marginalized have gone global in South-South conversations, making us rethink the contours of globalization and money.

LC Classification NumberHG1496