The Moral Power of Money

Wilkis, Ariel

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“…The study contributes to the existing literature on mothers who live in poverty by providing an evidence-based account of their lived experience regarding the main element that shapes their entire life-money. This exploration also allows us to expand the literature on the social construction of money among different female excluded populations (Wilkis, 2020). Our findings directly challenge the stigma and assumptions associated with mothers' acceptance of welfare by calling into question any assumptions about their immorality or inability to manage money.…”

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“…The paradox of neoliberalism is in creating all of the conditions to expand the need for welfare money and at the same time legitimizing the stigma attached to the beneficiaries of this kind of money. This contradictory dynamic has been analyzed in the past (Zelizer, 1989) and in other contexts (Wilkis, 2020). Our contribution is highlighting how the pressure of this moral structure of money in the neoliberal era increased the symbolic domination over low-income lone mothers.…”

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“…People use these frames to impose, negotiate and resist their positive or negative status in society. These moral dynamics produce a social hierarchy embedded in monetary practices (Wilkis, 2020).…”

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Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money

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Lone-mother–headed families are key targets of poverty research and financial coaching training programs worldwide. Yet, despite the centrality of this population in poverty studies, there is little research on how this population construes the meaning of money in developed economies. This article focuses on the social construction of money among low-income lone mothers in Israel—a highly market-oriented, neoliberal economy. Based on a qualitative analysis, the study found five main representations of money: survival money, motherhood money, earned money, coping money, and resistance to dominant views of money. Our findings confirm the notion that money exists outside the sphere of the market and has contextualized meanings reflecting gender as well as cultural and social structures.

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“…These practices reflect the co-operation of the entire family in the management of debt repayment, as Wilkis describes for Argentina, where families similarly juggle their obligations to keep their budgets from becoming unsustainable through 'maximising payback time and thus paying higher prices in order to then take out new loans'. 55 Ukubomfya insamushifinding temporary solutionswas another key strategy; it refers to the capacity to calculate or use one's head to find relief. One example is to open a savings account at the bank.…”

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Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt

Musonda

2021

Journal of Southern African Studies

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This article explores the borrowing practices of Copperbelt underground miners in the context of growing debt consumption since the privatisation of the country's mining sector. It explores why Zambian mine workers borrow and how they use loans. It shows that growing debt consumption among mine workers is related to the labour practices of the privatised mining companies. The payments in kind that typically accompanied mining employment in the 20th Century, such as housing, children's education, water and electricity, have been withdrawn and meeting these costs now accounts for a significant proportion of miners' income. Employers have effectively shifted responsibility for social welfare on to their workers, who receive increasingly low wages. At the same time, mass layoffs since privatisation have placed increased pressure on miners to look after retrenched and unemployed family members, while inflation has eroded their wages. The growth of credit markets has accompanied and facilitated these transformations. For contemporary mine workers, debt consumption is an attempt to reproduce the economic, social and cultural conditions of a 'modern life', which mine workers on the Copperbelt have associated with urban living since the colonial period. They invest borrowed money in housing, in family education and in businesses. Given the rising cost of living and the increasingly precarious nature of mine employment, this 'modern life' is primarily about 'getting by' and securing a post-employment future. Miners realise that they cannot live without debt. As such, they employ various coping strategies to manage their indebtedness.

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“…[...] La sociología francesa la encuentro aún inspiradora, pero aspiradora también: difícil no comprar todo el paquete: Bourdieu, los pragmatistas..." . Zelizer funciona como una fuente que lo internacionaliza por fuera de Francia: "publico en Stanford como un discípulo de ella que intenta vincularla con Bourdieu" (WILKIS, 2018) 22 .…”

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Los Caminos De Bourdieu en Argentina: Últimas Noticias

Baranger¹

2020

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Para abordar a recepção de Bourdieu na Argentina no século XXI, começamos descrevendo as condições socioeconômicas e institucionais que permitiram em grande parte deste período um desenvolvimento excepcional das ciências sociais em geral e, nesse contexto, o florescimento de obras de inspiração Bourdieusiana. Em seguida, apresentam-se as trajetórias de uma seleção de expoentes dessa tradição, com o objetivo de mostrar os diferentes caminhos que eles seguiram nos últimos anos. Finalmente, concluímos discutindo sobre o não-campo das ciências sociais na Argentina e sobre o lugar do Bourdieusianismo nesse espaço.

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The Moral Power of Money

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Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money

Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money

Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt

Los Caminos De Bourdieu en Argentina: Últimas Noticias

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