Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2019

Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia

Edited by: Lan Anh Hoang and Cheryll Alipio

Volume 4 in the series Transforming Asia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543151

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About this book

This book provides original, nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral economies of Asia.

Author / Editor information

Hoang Lan Anh :

Lan Anh Hoang is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Australia.Alipio Cheryll :

Cheryll Alipio is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work examines how care within the family is shaped by transnational migration and other forms of labour. She contributes to the fields of migration and development studies, economic and medical anthropology, the anthropology of children and youth, and Southeast Asian studies.

Reviews

"The classic question of how the economic transforms the social is at the heart of Lan Anh Hoang and Cheryll Alipio’s new volume, focusing on money and morality in the context of some of Asia’s tiger and newly industrialized economies. […] Overall the volume achieves its goal of delving "deep into the economic, political, social and religious developments and dynamics engendered by the moneyed transactions and moral transformations arising from neoliberal globalization" (273). The range of case studies across topics and locales are carefully analyzed and offer fascinating insights."
- Ivan V. Small, Asian Journal of Social Science, 49 (2021)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction
1. Money and Moralities. Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights Cheryll Alipio and Lan Anh Hoang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Part I. Money and Moral Selfhood in the Market Economy
2. The Moral Economy of Casino Work in Singapore Juan Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. Mobility and Flexible Moralities. Insights from the Case Study of Vietnamese Market Traders in Moscow Lan Anh Hoang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. ‘Billions and the Retrogression of Knowledge’? Wealth, Modernity, and Ethical Citizenship in a Northern Vietnamese Trading Village Esther Horat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Part II. Social Currencies and the Morality of Gender
5. House, Car, or Permanent Residency? Higher-Wage Chinese Migrant Men’s Flexible Masculinities in Singapore Sylvia Ang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6. ‘Your Vagina is a Rice Paddy’. Hegemonic Femininities and the Evolving Moralities of Sex in Chiang Mai, Thailand Cassie DeFillipo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
7. The Gender and Morality of Money in the Indian Transnational Family Supriya Singh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part III. The Social Life of Money in Asian Moral Economies
8. Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations. ‘Morality-in-Motion’ among Young People in the Philippines Cheryll Alipio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
9. Christianity as the Sixth Aspirational ‘C’. Megachurches and the Changing Landscape of Religion, Prosperity, and Wealth in Singapore Catherine Gomes and Jonathan Tan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
10. Cash, Women, and the Nation. Tales of Morality about Lao Banknotes in Times of Rapid Change Roy Huijsmans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Epilogue
11. Engendering Money and Morality in Asia Cheryll Alipio and Lan Anh Hoang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
Keywords: Money; morality; mobility; moral economy; Asia

eBook

Published: December 10, 2019
ISBN: 9789048543151