Money and moralities in contemporary Asia / edited by Lan Anh Hoang and Cheryll Alipio.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume 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.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Money and Moralities. Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights -- 2. The Moral Economy of Casino Work in Singapore -- 3. Mobility and Flexible Moralities. Insights from the Case Study of Vietnamese Market Traders in Moscow -- 4. 'Billions and the Retrogression of Knowledge'? Wealth, Modernity, and Ethical Citizenship in a Northern Vietnamese Trading Village -- 5. House, Car, or Permanent Residency? Higher-Wage Chinese Migrant Men's Flexible Masculinities in Singapore -- 6. 'Your Vagina is a Rice Paddy'. Hegemonic Femininities and the Evolving Moralities of Sex in Chiang Mai, Thailand -- 7. The Gender and Morality of Money in the Indian Transnational Family -- 8. Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations. 'Morality-in-Motion' among Young People in the Philippines -- 9. Christianity as the Sixth Aspirational 'C'. Megachurches and the Changing Landscape of Religion, Prosperity, and Wealth in Singapore -- 10. Cash, Women, and the Nation. Tales of Morality about Lao Banknotes in Times of Rapid Change -- 11. Engendering Money and Morality in Asia -- Index

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