Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia

Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia

Format:
E-Book (pdf)
EAN:
9789048543151
Genre:
Sonstiges
Herausgeber:
Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
Anzahl Seiten:
280
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.12.2019

This book provides original, nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral economies of Asia.

Autorentext
Lan Anh Hoang is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series 'Anthropology, Change, and Development'. Her research interests are migration and transnationalism, sexualities and gender, social networks and social capital, and identity and belonging. Her work has been published in many journals including Gender and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, Global Networks, Population, Space and Place, Geoforum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Cheryll Alipio is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work examines how care within the family is shaped by transnational migration and other forms of labour. She contributes to the fields of migration and development studies, economic and medical anthropology, the anthropology of children and youth, and Southeast Asian studies. She has co-edited a special journal section on "Asian Children and Transnational Migration" in Children's Geographies and a special journal issue on "Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia" in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Her work has appeared in these journals as well as others, including Children and Society and TRaNS: Trans-Regional and National Studies of Southeast Asia.

Inhalt
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Money and Moralities: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical InsightsPART I: MONEY AND MORAL SELFHOOD IN THE MARKET ECONOMYChapter 2: The Moral Economy of Casino Work in SingaporeChapter 3: Mobility and Flexible Moralities: Insights from the Case Study of Vietnamese Market Traders in MoscowChapter 4: 'Billions and Retrogression of Knowledge'? Wealth, Modernity, and Ethical Citizenship in a Northern Vietnamese Trading VillagePART II: SOCIAL CURRENCIES AND THE MORALITY OF GENDERChapter 5: House, Car, or Permanent Residency? Higher-Wage Chinese Migrant Men's Flexible Masculinities in SingaporeChapter 6: 'Your Vagina is a Rice Paddy': Hegemonic Femininities and the Evolving Moralities of Sex in Chiang Mai, ThailandChapter 7: The Gender and Morality of Money in the Indian Transnational FamilyPART III: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MONEY IN ASIAN MORAL ECONOMIESChapter 8: Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations: "Morality-in-Motion" among Young People in the PhilippinesChapter 9: Christianity as the Sixth Aspirational 'C': Megachurches and the Changing Landscape of Religion, Prosperity, and Wealth in SingaporeChapter 10: Cash, Women, and the Nation: Tales of Morality about Lao Banknotes in Times of Rapid ChangeEPILOGUEChapter 11: Engendering Money and Morality in AsiaIndex


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