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Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia /

Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia 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 globa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Alipio, Cheryll (Editor), Hoang, Lan Anh, 1977- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Transforming Asia.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Money and moralities : theoretical perspectives and empirical insights / Cheryll Alipio and Lan Anh Hoang
  • The moral economy of casino work in Singapore / Juan Zhang
  • Mobility and flexible moralities : insights from the case study of Vietnamese market traders in Moscow / Lan Anh Hoang
  • 'Billions and the retrogression of knowledge'? : wealth, modernity, and ethical citizenship in a northern Vietnamese trading village / Esther Horat
  • House, car, or permanent residency? : higher-wage Chinese migrant men's flexible masculinities in Singapore / Sylvia Ang
  • 'Your vagina is a rice paddy' : hegemonic femininities and the evolving moralities of sex in Chiang Mai, Thailand / Cassie DeFillipo
  • The gender and morality of money in the Indian transnational family / Supriya Singh
  • Money, maturity, and migrant aspirations : 'morality-in-motion' among young people in the Philippines / Cheryll Alipio
  • Christianity as the sixth aspirational 'C' : megachurches and the changing landscape of religion, prosperity, and wealth in Singapore / Catherine Gomes and Jonathan Tan
  • Cash, women, and the nation : tales of morality about Lao banknotes in times of rapid change / Roy Huijsmans
  • Engendering money and morality in Asia / Cheryll Alipio and Lan Anh Hoang.