Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology

Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas R. Holmes, Coco Kanters (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-1256-6 (ISBN)

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This Encyclopedia presents insights into societal change through the lens of economic anthropology. Interdisciplinary in scope, it outlines emerging themes in the field and explicitly connects theoretical debates to in-depth empirical evidence.

Experts in the field provide ethnographic examples to explore contemporary and pioneering works in cultural and social economic analysis, looking ahead to the future of economic anthropology. Building on the history of the discipline, the Encyclopedia captures the latest concepts and examines how they can be used to develop new ways of thinking about the economy.

Key Features:

Highlights how conflict in society is related to capitalism, markets, and values
Showcases new lines of inquiry through innovative studies from diverse scholarly and geographical areas
Analyzes the relationship between theory and method, shedding light on the function of the economy as part of society and culture
57 entries covering varied themes including energy, climate finance, responsible innovation, entrepreneurship, international development, and gender

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology is a vital reference for scholars and students of anthropology, social sciences, and economic psychology. It is also a beneficial resource for policymakers and practitioners in economics and finance.

Edited by Cristina Grasseni, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Erik Bähre, Associate Professor, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Douglas R. Holmes, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, USA and Coco Kanters, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Contents
Introduction: the porous boundaries of a discipline 1
Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas R. Holmes, and Coco Kanters
PART I NATURAL RESOURCES
Introduction: natural resources 7
Erik Bähre
1 Valuing nature 9
Marja Spierenburg
2 Value in post-conflict landscapes 14
Paola Filippucci
3 Gold mining 19
Sabine Luning
4 Energy 24
Cymene Howe
5 Crisis 29
Tim van de Meerendonk
6 Climate finance 34
Aneil Tripathy
7 Water as frontier of financialization 39
Andrea Muehlebach
8 Subsistence decision making 44
Bram Tucker
PART II CORPORATIONS AND EMERGING MARKETS
Introduction: corporations and emerging markets 50
Douglas R. Holmes
1 The corporation 53
David A. Westbrook
2 The curious case of cooperatives 57
Lilith Mahmud
3 Video games 62
Joshua Reno
4 Special economic zones 67
Patrick Neveling
5 Alternative currency designers 71
Coco Kanters
6 Islam and capitalism 77
Daromir Rudnyckyj
7 Christianity, finance, and new market experts 82
Anna-Riikka Kauppinen
8 Insurance 87
Erik Bähre
PART III ECONOMIES OF CARE
Introduction: economies of care 93
Cristina Grasseni
1 Care 95
Tabea Häberlein and Erdmute Alber
2 Food cooperatives 100
Celia Plender
3 The economy of hope 105
Hirokazu Miyazaki
4 Solidarity economy: from economic framework to worlding politics 109
Boone W. Shear
5 Exhaustion 114
Federico De Musso
6 Food banks 119
Ewa Kopczyńska
7 Self-help groups in the age of FinTech 124
Daivi Rodima-Taylor
8 Alternative food networks and Karl Polanyi 129
Maris Boyd Gillette
PART IV SCALE AND GLOBAL CIRCULATIONS
Introduction: scale and global circulations 135
Cristina Grasseni
1 Global hierarchy of value 137
Michael Herzfeld
2 Commodity certification and cultural valorization in global markets 142
Joana Nascimento
3 Container capitalism 147
Hege Høyer Leivestad
4 Violence and the global economy 152
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
5 Responsible (research and) innovation 157
Jonathan P. Hankins
6 Making 162
Cristina Grasseni
7 Entrepreneurship and the future 167
Joost Beuving
PART V ECONOMIES OF STATECRAFT
Introduction: economies of statecraft 173
Erik Bähre
1 Technology of money 175
Douglas R. Holmes
2 Economies of international development 180
Maia Green
3 Post-peasants of Eastern Europe 186
Juraj Buzalka
4 Retail finance, mortgage lending, and risk 191
Marek Mikuš
5 Governing the fiscal subject 198
Nicolette Makovicky
6 Fiscal politics 203
Robin Smith
7 Deservingness 208
Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tošić
PART VI GENDERED ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Introduction: gendered economic relations 214
Erik Bähre
1 Key symbols of gender and money 216
Sibel Kusimba
2 Queer Marxian perspectives 222
Andreas Streinzer and Ryan Davey
3 Post-work 227
Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen
4 Family businesses and businesses as family 231
Elena Sischarenco
5 Divorce 236
Norah Kiereri
6 Dignity 240
Loïc Pignolo
7 The values of life 245
Irene Moretti
PART VII INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITALIZATION
Introduction: infrastructure, technology, digitalization 250
Douglas R. Holmes
1 Ports, infrastructure, and logistics 253
Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar
2 Private equity 258
Daniel Scott Souleles
3 Digital money 263
Gustav Peebles
4 Bottom lines and below-the-lines on the film set 268
Jackson Francis Malle
5 The Right to the City and informal housing 273
Sven da Silva
6 Payment systems 278
Bill Maurer
PART VIII SKILL, LABOUR, AND PRECARITY
Introduction: Skill, labour, and precarity 284
Cristina Grasseni
1 Criminal economies 286
Gabriel Feltran
2 Affective economies and post-socialisms 290
Tomasz Rakowski
3 Labor, class, and skill 295
Tom Martin
4 Working bodies 300
Rebecca Prentice
5 Precarity and poetry 305
Maghiel van Crevel
6 New labor struggles in the US Rust Belt 310
Sharryn Kasmir

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-0353-1256-5 / 1035312565
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-1256-6 / 9781035312566
Zustand	Neuware