Regimes of Value in Mexican Household Financial Practices

Villarreal, Magdalena

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“…A number of pieces examined the construction of political valuefor example, Gregory Duff Morton's (2014) A large concentration of articles examined the dynamics of crisis or the potential end of economic value. In American Anthropologist, Horacio Ortiz (2014) analyzed the limits of financial imagination in the face of crisis, while Current Anthropology published a special issue on "Crisis, Value, and Hope," divided into three sections: "Negotiating Regimes of Value: Debt, Shame, Sacrifice, and the Future," "TimeSpace Dimensions of Making a Living in Times of Uncertainty," and "The Worth of People and the Moral Obligation to Care," with articles specifically taking up the relationship and tension between intimacies and money (Guérin 2014;L'Estoile 2014;Shipton 2014;Villarreal 2014), labor and race (Brodkin 2014), and migration (Cole 2014b;Pine 2014).…”

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The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

Hankins

2015

American Anthropologist

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In this essay, I trace the operations of a moral optimism and a skepticism that lie, uneasily, at the foundation of sociocultural anthropology. As other authors of year-in-review pieces have noted, anthropology is motivated by a moral optimism pointing toward the possibilities of an ethically and politically better life. Equally as fundamental, I argue, is a rigorous skepticism interrogating the shifting conditions that give life to anthropology's possibility. Here, I follow the productive tension between these two stances through the sociocultural anthropology of 2014, loosely grouping that work under the rubrics of "ends," "immediacy," "ecology," and "refusal." Throughout, I make a push for increased attention to our ethic of skepticism as means of tempering the discipline's moral optimism. [optimism, skepticism, immediacy, connection, year in review, sociocultural anthropology] RESUMENEn este ensayo, delineo las operaciones de un optimismo moral y un escepticismo que yacen, incómodamente, en la fundación de la antropología sociocultural. Como otros autores de los artyículos del año en revisión lo han notado, la antropología está motivada por un optimismo moral señalando hacia las posibilidades de una vidaética y políticamente mejor. Igualmente fundamental, argumento, es un escepticismo riguroso interrogando las condiciones cambiantes que dan vida a la posibilidad de la antropología. Aquí, sigo la tensión productiva entre estas dos posiciones a través de la antropología cultural del 2014, agrupando en líneas generales ese trabajo bajo las rúbricas de "fines", "inmediatez", "ecología", y "rechazo". A lo largo, presiono por una atención creciente a nuestraética de escepticismo, como un medio de temperar el optimismo moral de la disciplina. [optimismo, escepticismo, inmediatez, conexión, año en revisión, antropología sociocultural] ON SKEPTICISM AND OPTIMISMIn this essay, I review work in U.S. sociocultural anthropology from 2014. At the same time, I argue for attention to a skepticism that lies at the heart of our discipline, frequently overshadowed by the equally longstanding moral optimism that fuels our discipline's forward tilt. Michel de Montaigne begins his 16th-century essay "On the Cannibals" by questioning the chauvinistic tendency for anyone to call "barbarous anything he is not accustomed to" (1991:231). He argues, in counterpoint, for seeing the barbarism of the "we": "Those 'savages' are only wild in the sense that we call fruits wild when they are produced by Nature in her ordinary course: whereas it is fruit we

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The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

Hankins

2015

American Anthropologist

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“…For example, Polish labor migrants from various parts of Poland and at different times establish particular forms of care configurations with families and friends, forms that are shaped by the economic and political contexts of the decision to migrate (Pine 2014). In a similar vein, Mexican labor migrants in California juggle between different regimes of value that are interwoven with different responsibilities to families back home, the need to appear to have "made it," and the political economic structures of labor and migration policies (Villarreal 2014). While feminist economics recenters the economy around the human need of mutual support and political economy attends to the movements that produce differentiation and enable wealth accumulation and unequal distribution, moral economy inquires into the grounds for claiming, the frameworks of entitlement, and the design of reasonable expectations.…”

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“…In the articles in this special issue of Current Anthropology that focus on credit (Guérin 2014;James 2014;Villarreal 2014), we find that beyond the accounting of debt interest through market instruments, which are obviously time dependent, credit is tied to a multiple-value assessment of investment in a better future (Shipton 2014). Ordinary people's everyday financial practices thus often have ambivalent meanings.…”

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Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy

Narotzky¹,

Besnier²

2014

Current Anthropology

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Crisis, value, and hope are three concepts whose intersection and mutual constitution open the door for a rethinking of the nature of economic life away from abstract models divorced from the everyday realities of ordinary people, the inadequacies of which the current world economic crisis has exposed in particularly dramatic fashion. This rethinking seeks to bring to center stage the complex ways in which people attempt to make life worth living for themselves and for future generations, involving not only waged labor but also structures of provisioning, investments in social relations, relations of trust and care, and a multitude of other forms of social action that mainstream economic models generally consider trivial, marginal, and often counterproductive. A holistic understanding of how people organize their economic lives is attentive to both the temporality of value and the relationship between different scales of value. It is attentive to the spatial configuration of economic life in many societies in which the future has become synonymous with geographical mobility. It is attentive to the fact that making a living is about making people in their physical, social, spiritual, affective, and intellectual dimensions.Rethinking the economy is an ambitious project, and the selection of the three themes of crisis, value, and hope with which we seek to open up a broader debate is an indication of the starting point: the crude realities of the many, those of ordinary people. The focus on "common" or "ordinary" people highlights the fact that those whose decision-making capacities are restricted by their limited assets, be it in terms of wealth or power, are nevertheless capable of developing sometimes complex individual or collective strategies to enhance their own well-being and the well-being of future generations. Here we define "well-being" as the accomplishment of socially reasonable expectations of material and emotional comfort that depend on access to the diverse resources needed to attain them. The context of a breakdown of expectations that the global crisis has produced in many regions of the world has reconfigured values and reshuffled the frameworks of moral obligation. As a result, the imagining of possible futures and how to make them happen has also changed. The

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“…Los estudios sociales existentes sobre las "low finance" o finanzas domésticas pueden clasificarse en dos tipos. Por un lado, aquellas investigaciones que estudian los cambios en las prácticas económicas de quienes enfrentan nuevos tipos de productos y tecnologías financieras (por ejemplo, Müller, 2014;Villarreal, 2014;Wilkis, 2014). Por otro lado, investigaciones que han estudiado las tecnologías y prácticas de las empresas financieras orientadas a nuevos consumidores (Deville, 2013;Poon, 2011).…”

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Contabilidad en los márgenes: ecologías financieras entre big y small data

Ossandón

Ariztía

Barros

et al. 2017

Civitas

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Resumen: Los estudios sociales sobre las finanzas domésticas pueden clasificarse en dos tipos: investigaciones enfocadas al estudio de "dispositivos de mercado" (tales como scorings y tarjetas de crédito) utilizados por compañías financieras, e investigaciones que analizan las nuevas prácticas y modos de "cálculo cotidiano" desarrollados por los usuarios de los servicios financieros alrededor del mundo. Este artículo es parte de un proyecto mayor que busca abrir un camino diferente, que intenta situar a los estudios sociales de las finanzas domésticas en la intersección donde ambos tipos de cálculo

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Regimes of Value in Mexican Household Financial Practices

Cited by 24 publications

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The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy

Contabilidad en los márgenes: ecologías financieras entre big y small data

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