Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Future

Peebles, Gustav

doi:10.1215/08992363-2007-025

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“…As the ledger pluralizes, who controls the cross-referencing, the gateways between newly dispersed accounts? Will it be the new 3C28A.3D1 Template Standardized 05-07-2016 and Last Modified on 16-09-2016 corporate masters of multiple, independent or interdependent temples, each holding its own record of our interactions (a twist on Peebles's (2008) story: instead of the hoards migrating to the banks, they migrate to the great server farms of our era)?…”

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Money as Token and Money as Record in Distributed Accounts

Maurer¹

2017

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Money as Token and Money as Record in Distributed Accounts

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“…This paper contributes to the growing body of research on the role of currencies in nation building as symbols of national identity (Dodd 1994(Dodd , 1995(Dodd , 2001Gilbert 2005;Gilbert and Helleiner 1999;Helleiner 1998Helleiner , 2003aHelleiner , 2003bHelleiner , 2006Helleiner and Pickel 2005;Kaelberer 2005Kaelberer , 2010Lauer 2008;Meier-Pesti and Kirchler 2003;Müller-Peters 1998;Peebles 2008;Penrose 2011;Penrose and Cumming 2011;Popadopoulos 2015;Sørensen 2014Sørensen , 2016Unwin and Hewitt 2001;Wallach 2011). According to my working definition of monetary nationalism, this is the variety of nationalism, which conceives of national currency as an essential element of nation state and national identity ('one nation, one money').…”

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The glory and demise of monetary nationalism in the post‐communist Baltic states

Norkus

2018

Nations and Nationalism

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This paper contributes to the body of research on the monetary variety of nationalism, which conceives of national currency as an essential element of nation state and national identity (‘one nation, one money’), exploring its contribution to the successful internal devaluation in the Baltic states during the economic crisis of 2008–2010. Contrary to the predictions of renowned experts in economics and finance, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were able to keep the peg of their national currencies to euro. Because of peculiar features of their histories (a brief period of independence with national currencies allegedly based on a gold standard, interrupted by prolonged Soviet occupation and the despised ‘wooden rouble’) monetary nationalism was very strong in the restored independent Baltic states. Monetary nationalism predisposed their indigenous populations to embrace the neoliberal model of capitalism and to accept the welfare cost of the defence of currency pegging during the crisis. Paradoxically, the success was self‐defeating, as it enabled the Baltic states to join Eurozone, abolishing national currencies. Theorizing about this case study of Baltic monetary nationalism, this paper closes with the interpretation of the rise and demise of national currencies as the reversal of the Weberian disenchantment process. Monetary nationalism (making money a core part of national identity) is a product of this reversal.

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“…He becomes sufficient to himself, leaning on no borrowed staff, putting himself at no fellow man's disposal, soliciting no alms, nor bending submissively under a sense of obligation in the presence either of a generous or haughty benefactor'. (Horne, 1947in Peebles, 2008 To have dignity, independence and self-control required participation in Savings Banks. These are morally salient characteristics that shape how saving, hoarding, or acquiring debt will be evaluated as viable options among a set of options.…”

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Relational accounting: A cultural approach

Wherry

2016

Am J Cult Sociol

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This article extends (but goes beyond) Zelier's original concept of relational earmarking, where individuals engaged in dynamic forms of relational work categorize their spending and develop practices of resource allocation by virtue of the relationships being managed. This article pushes for a performative understanding of accounting practices by elaborating a theory of relational accounting based on the outlines proposed by Zelizer. Relational accounting begins (i) upstream where identifiable codes and structured meaning systems shape the set of options, non-options and their sense of being possible for the person engaged in action. Moral considerations embedded in these codes affect the geometric shape of the individual's decision tree, nearly collapsing some decision branches. (ii) In mid-stream there are meaningful, ritually prescribed occasions altering accounting priorities. And (iii) downstream people are engaged in relational work where the meanings of their relationships function performatively. Deals make more or less sense by virtue of the types of relationships being managed and the meanings of the relational sites where monetary evaluations take place. Identifiable third parties sanction these relational performances. The article concludes with concrete examples of relational accounting for luxury transactions and for high cost debt.

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Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Future

Cited by 47 publications

References 30 publications

Money as Token and Money as Record in Distributed Accounts

Money as Token and Money as Record in Distributed Accounts

The glory and demise of monetary nationalism in the post‐communist Baltic states

Relational accounting: A cultural approach

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