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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.
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