Finance and the household are a pair that has not received sufficient attention. As a system,
finance joins citizens, states, and global markets through the connections of kinship and …

Recent decades have seen an exponential growth in the field of international schools, and a
concurrent rise in the number of young Anglo-Saxon teachers overseas. Such mobile …

Today's regime of financialized capitalism requires individuals to engage with financial
products and services to ensure their financial security and welfare. Within this regime …

Ordinary individuals are increasingly charged with making investment decisions not only for
themselves but also for close others. A child's college savings account and a spouse's …

Cost is a well-established barrier to health insurance uptake. Although iterations of the
phrase “I don't have any money to buy health insurance” are pervasive in research on the …

In September of 2008, when the banking giant Lehman Brothers collapsed, lending came to
a halt. Borrowers across the globe were left holding outsized debts and declining credit …

O entrecruzamento da política de remoção de favelas com o programa habitacional Minha
Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV) produziu no Rio de Janeiro novas formas de morar, a partir de …

This chapter discusses the critical stakes in an anthropology of financialization. By drawing
out contesting expectations, anthropology also reveals how the very fact of financialization is …

Over the past decade, debt-based solutions have been implemented as part of austerity
policies to distribute public goods by the use of market forces, resulting in an increase in …

This dissertation examines the politics of relationality and its mediation through the
exchange of language, debt, and other semiotic modalities of interaction in Kupang, an …