Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia (1) (Transforming Asia)

By: Lan Anh Hoang and Cheryll Alipio

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Synopsis: Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia provides original, nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral economies of Asia. Through case studies from South and Southeast Asia, the collection sheds important light on how the new mobilities and wealth created by neoliberal globalization transform people's ways of life, notions of personhood, and their meaning making of the world. It highlights the moral dilemmas and anxieties emerging from the profound socio-economic transformations that are taking place across the region and deepens our understanding of local cultures as well as the inner contradictions of global capital in Asian contexts. With rich ethnographic insights and a diverse range of empirical contexts, chapters in this volume reveal multifaceted complexities and contradictions in the relationship between money and moralities. Money, they affirm, is not an impersonal, objective economic instrument with homogenizing powers but a culturally constructed and socially mediated currency in which meanings are constantly contested and re-negotiated across time and space.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 280 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040789797
Related ISBNs:: 9789463723107, 9781003699989, 9781040776803, 9781041183013
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/01/25
Copyrighted By:: All authors / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Lan Anh Hoang
Edited by:: Cheryll Alipio