Common cents: situating money in time and place

Gilbert, Emily

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“…Zelizer (1994), in contrast, holds that there are no essential qualities that define 'moneyness ' (cf. Ingham 2004), even when socio-economic spaces are colonized by the singular and territorializing monetary form of modern sovereign currencies (Gilbert 2005). Given the social and political construction of money in all its forms, there is always already scope for diverse meanings to be inscribed into monetary valuations and circulations.…”

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Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A Cultural Economy

Langley

2016

Economic Geography

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Section: The Monetary Valuations Of Crowdfundingmentioning

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Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A Cultural Economy

Langley

2016

Economic Geography

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“…Eric Helleiner and Emily Gilbert argue that national currencies serve as a medium of communication and hence foster a sense of shared fate among members. In addition, the images portrayed on bills and coins serve to foster a sense of national belonging (Helleiner 1998(Helleiner , 2003Gilbert 2005). Following Anderson (1991Anderson ( [1983), Helleiner and Gilbert focus primarily on the ways currencies generate a representation of the nation.…”

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“…Money is typically understood as a resource, as something that enables movements, political or otherwise, to do certain things. In the context of studies of nationalism, scholars often assume that people give money when they identify with the nation and that fundraising, therefore, is secondary and dependent on prior identification (for an exception, see Helleiner 1998Helleiner , 2003Gilbert 2005). But, as Viviana Zelizer points out, money can also be understood in a different way, as a medium through which social ties are negotiated, stitched together, or dismantled (1994).…”

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Manufacturing national attachments: gift-giving, market exchange and the construction of Irish and Zionist diaspora bonds

Lainer-Vos

2011

Theor Soc

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This article explores nation building as an organizational accomplishment and uses the concept of boundary object to explain how the groups that compose the nation cooperate. Specifically, the article examines the mechanisms devised to secure a flow of money from the Irish-American and Jewish-American diasporas to their respective homelands. To overcome problems associated with conventional philanthropy, Irish and Jewish nationalists issued bonds and sold them to their American compatriots as a hybrid of a gift and an investment. In the Irish case, disagreements about the entitlement to the proceeds resulted in the termination of the bond project. In the Jewish case, the bond served as a boundary object allowing American and Israeli Jews to cooperate despite ongoing tensions. The Israeli bond provided Jewish-Americans with an additional way to invest themselves financially and emotionally in Israel. This bond is an example of a socio-technical mechanism used to create national attachments.

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“…Many scholars have acknowledged the symbolic importance of money, beyond considerations of iconography, and have sought to understand the currency-identity relationship and the political economy of the monetary unions (Anderson, 2006;Cohen, 1998;Gilbert, 2005;Helleiner, 2006;Kaelberer, 2004;Marcussen, 2005;Marcussen & Zølner, 2001. Kaelberer (2004, p. 11), for example, points to the institutionalised trust of modern societies that sustains a monetary system and contends that trust constitutes a far more important element than iconography in the currency-identity relationship.…”

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The Danish euro: constructing a monetary oxymoron in the Danish euro debate

Sørensen

2013

National Identities

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In this article, I analyse the political debate leading up to the Danish euro referendum in 2000. I show how the euro-positive government unintentionally reinforced the arguments of the euro-sceptics by framing the euro as something belonging to the nation-state. I argue that this paradoxical campaign strategy stems from the Danish conceptualisation of nation and state and from the close connection between national currencies and feelings of community and citizenship more general. The analysis confirms the suggestion made by Gilbert that new monetary organisation, such as European Monetary Union, potentially reconfigures the feelings of belonging, popular sovereignty and social welfare rights.

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Common cents: situating money in time and place

Cited by 105 publications

References 53 publications

Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A Cultural Economy

Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A Cultural Economy

Manufacturing national attachments: gift-giving, market exchange and the construction of Irish and Zionist diaspora bonds

The Danish euro: constructing a monetary oxymoron in the Danish euro debate

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