Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia
Lan Anh Hoang, Cheryll Alipio (eds)
- Title
- Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia
- Editors
- Lan Anh Hoang
- Cheryll Alipio
- Price
- € 123,99
- ISBN
- 9789048543151
- Format
- eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
- Number of pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 10 - 12 - 2019
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Transforming Asia
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Money and Moralities: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights
PART I: MONEY AND MORAL SELFHOOD IN THE MARKET ECONOMY
Chapter 2: The Moral Economy of Casino Work in Singapore
Chapter 3: Mobility and Flexible Moralities: Insights from the Case Study of Vietnamese Market Traders in Moscow
Chapter 4: 'Billions and Retrogression of Knowledge'? Wealth, Modernity, and Ethical Citizenship in a Northern Vietnamese Trading Village
PART II: SOCIAL CURRENCIES AND THE MORALITY OF GENDER
Chapter 5: House, Car, or Permanent Residency? Higher-Wage Chinese Migrant Men's Flexible Masculinities in Singapore
Chapter 6: 'Your Vagina is a Rice Paddy': Hegemonic Femininities and the Evolving Moralities of Sex in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Chapter 7: The Gender and Morality of Money in the Indian Transnational Family
PART III: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MONEY IN ASIAN MORAL ECONOMIES
Chapter 8: Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations: "Morality-in-Motion" among Young People in the Philippines
Chapter 9: Christianity as the Sixth Aspirational 'C': Megachurches and the Changing Landscape of Religion, Prosperity, and Wealth in Singapore
Chapter 10: Cash, Women, and the Nation: Tales of Morality about Lao Banknotes in Times of Rapid Change
EPILOGUE
Chapter 11: Engendering Money and Morality in Asia
Index
Reviews and Features
"The classic question of how the economic transforms the social is at the heart of Lan Anh Hoang and Cheryll Alipio’s new volume, focusing on money and morality in the context of some of Asia’s tiger and newly industrialized economies. […] Overall the volume achieves its goal of delving "deep into the economic, political, social and religious developments and dynamics engendered by the moneyed transactions and moral transformations arising from neoliberal globalization" (273). The range of case studies across topics and locales are carefully analyzed and offer fascinating insights."
- Ivan V. Small, Asian Journal of Social Science, 49 (2021)
- Ivan V. Small, Asian Journal of Social Science, 49 (2021)
Lan Anh Hoang, Cheryll Alipio (eds)
Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia
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.
Editors
Lan Anh Hoang
Lan Anh Hoang is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Cheryll Alipio
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.
