June 4, 2024Tuesday, 12:00-1:00pmPTLocation(Hybrid): Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) #3323Online Zoom registration: bit.ly/RattanUCI Introduced and moderated by Bill Maurer, Anthropology, UCI and Director, IMTFI About the talk:Contemporary politics in India present a puzzle: the last decade has led to
IMTFI Fellow Oludayo Tade, Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, shares his research published in Protest In the first week of February 2023, videos of two people who stripped naked in some banking halls located in Southern Nigeria went viral.
Bill Maurer, anthropology, Christian Science Monitor, April 15, 2024 For some people, physical currency is crucial for daily life. In 2021, the “unbanked” share of the population stood at 4.5% of U.S. households – nearly 6 million, according to the
By Claire Greene, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Apr. 8, 2024 At a living history museum in Massachusetts, you can visit a bank built in 1835. That bank has sturdy fluted pillars, a design element that has wordlessly spelled out
IMTFI and the UCI Department of Anthropology for a book talk: Data Money or Cryptocurrencies: Marco Polo Comes to the 21st Century with Koray Caliskan, Parsons School of Design, the New School Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, 12:00-1:00pmPTLocation (Hybrid Event): Social
By Melissa K. Wrapp and Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine In 2021, researchers from the University of California, Irvine partnered with the Filene Research Institute to study the role of financial institutions in our era of mis- and disinformation.
Presentation: The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism by Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian Stanford University PressSEPTEMBER 2023248 PAGESFROM $25.00 Hardcover ISBN: 9781503636316Paperback ISBN: 9781503636903Ebook ISBN: 9781503636910 Register: bit.ly/IndebtedWoman Introduced and moderated by Bill Maurer, Anthropology, UCI and
By Anette Broløs and Erin B. Taylor, Finthropology The past few decades have seen substantial development in the digitization of financial services, market facilitation platforms and agricultural extension services for farmers. These offer many potential benefits, but the ability of
Watch: Introduced and moderated byBill Maurer, Anthropology, UCI and IMTFI Director AbstractThe term ‘metaverse’, like the term ‘blockchain’, is both vague and capacious, mashing together visions for the future of gaming and augmented reality with scenes from Ready Player One.
Cross-posted from APRI, Africa Policy Research Institute’s The Africa Hour, a monthly podcast Synopsis Cash is still king in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, despite a decades-long push by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to switch to alternative modes of
