‘Cards are for showing off’: Aesthetics of cashlessness and intermediation among the urban poor in Delhi
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
In this chapter, I explore how payment technologies such as mobile phone-enabled payments pertain to the lives of the urban poor in the post-demonetisation India. While becoming increasingly widespread after the demonetisation, these technologies and their uses operate on unequal infrastructural terrain and are refracted through social inequalities and unstable income patterns. I show how in this context, the aesthetic production that underlines the use of payment technologies by the urban poor unsettles demonetisation’s technological promise of immediation, and highlights how intermediation, unexpected uses and differentiation of forms of moneys take place.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Who's Cashing In? Contemporary Perspectives on Newmonies and Global Cashlessness |
Editors | Atreyee Sen, Johan Lindquist, Marie Kolling |
Number of pages | 16 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Publication date | 1 Aug 2020 |
Pages | 73-88 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781789209150 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Series | Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis |
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