James, Deborah 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X
(2015)
Money from nothing: indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa.
Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, USA.
ISBN 9780804792677
Abstract
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion—dubbed "banking the unbanked"—which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals the varied ways in which middle- and working-class South Africans' access to credit is intimately bound up with identity, status-making, and aspirations of upward mobility. She draws out the deeply precarious nature of both the aspirations and the economic relations of debt which sustain her subjects, revealing the shadowy side of indebtedness and its potential to produce new forms of oppression and disenfranchisement in place of older ones. Money from Nothing uniquely captures the lived experience of indebtedness for those many millions who attempt to improve their positions (or merely sustain existing livelihoods) in emerging economies.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Official URL: | http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=21858 |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University |
| Divisions: | Anthropology |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2015 13:54 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 05:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/62010 |
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