Mergers & Acquisitions

Series Summary This series brings together scholars researching the relationship between green finance, and the everyday experiences of violence and solidarity across the world. Green finance, the various models of loans and investments that ostensibly support mitigation and adaptation to climate change, is promoted by international bodies such as the United Nations and the World Bank. However, th...

New Series: Grounding the Green Financing Series Summary This series brings together scholars researching the relationship between green finance, and the everyday experiences of violence and solidarity across the world. Green finance, understood as various models of loans and investments that ostensibly support mitigation and adaptation to climate change, is promoted by international bodies such a...

Series Summary The series brings together anthropologists, researchers, and practitioners to examine crypto as it unfolds across time and place. We follow crypto through its successive cycles, from early experimentation and speculative booms to moments of crash. These episodes highlight the value of an ethnographic lens to research the volatile landscape of crypto, showing how ideas of value, risk...

Why do everyday people buy or trade crypto? And how do states regulate or even use it themselves? Host Al Lim speaks with Wesam Hassan and Antulio Rosales about the practices and politics of crypto in Turkey and Latin America. In places facing acute and overlapping crises, such as Argentina and Turkey, high inflation and currency instability have driven widespread crypto adoption as people seek wa...

Series Summary The series brings together anthropologists, researchers, and practitioners to examine crypto as it unfolds across time and place. We follow crypto through its successive cycles, from early experimentation and speculative booms to moments of crash. These episodes highlight the value of an ethnographic lens to research the volatile landscape of crypto, showing how ideas of value, risk...

In this episode, our co-hosts take a deep dive into each other’s research on a broad range of contemporary political and economic changes in Mongolian pastoral lifeways. In particular, they explore: the changing nature of work, gender, and household organization; the impact of social and economic policy on herd management; the connections between the Covid 19 pandemic and the rise of social media;...

Brie Berry Overview of series: As secondhand markets boom across the United States and the globe, it’s time to ask whether all of this growth is a good thing. Along with scholars and practitioners, we’ll critically explore the rise of online resale markets, the social value of secondhand economies, the seeming decline of stigma, and the potential rise of gentrification. Host: Dr. Brie Berry is an...

Brie Berry Overview of series: As secondhand markets boom across the United States and the globe, it’s time to ask whether all of this growth is a good thing. Along with scholars and practitioners, we’ll critically explore the rise of online resale markets, the social value of secondhand economies, the seeming decline of stigma, and the potential rise of gentrification. Host: Dr. Brie...

Series Title: The Rise of Resale Brie Berry Overview of series: As secondhand markets boom across the United States and the globe, it’s time to ask whether all of this growth is a good thing. Along with scholars and practitioners, we’ll critically explore the rise of online resale markets, the social value of secondhand economies, the seeming decline of stigma, and the potential rise o...

In the final episode of “Currency Experiments & Value Conversions” Ferda Nur Demirci and Daromir Rudnyckyj discuss the 2023 article “’Every dollar has its own problem’: Discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multicurrency era Zimbabwe” with its author, Chris Vasantkumar, an anthropologist based at Macquarie University. The discussion addresses Zimbabwe’s complex moneta...