Daromir Rudnyckyj
Biographic Data
| ID | 106189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daromir Rudnyckyj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daromir |
| FAMILY NAME | Rudnyckyj |
| SIGNATURE | RUDNYCKYJ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3940-4881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 428 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Coin's Third Side: Illiberal Money and the Sociality of a Community Currency
Classic work in the analysis of money has emphasized the role of the state and the market in giving money its value. This article seeks to build on work that has emphasized the coin's “third side,” in which society serves as a source of monetary value. In so doing, the article builds on the concept of illiberal economies by theorizing what is termed illiberal money . It does so through an analysis of the Comox Valley LETSystem, a community curren…
Finance
Finance is a critical dimension of life for most contemporary human beings. Finance refers to the management of money as debt, credit, or capital. Financial practices and techniques date to the dawn of human communities characterised by the division of labour. Indeed, the earliest written records kept in ancient Mesopotamia are records of credit and debt. As such, finance should not be understood as a synonym for capitalism or modernity, but rath…
Payment ecologies: From pathways in a jungle of currencies to vectors of community money
University of VictoriaIn her Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, delivered in 1997 and published under the title Marginal gains in 2004, Jane Guyer describes what she calls a "jungle of currencies" circulating in the Congo River basin in the early twentieth century (Guyer 2004: 32).Guyer focuses on a collection made by a Belgian colonial official, Van de Weyer, who meticulously documented sixty-eight items, including tools, weapons, adornments, musical …
Islamic Finance in Africa: The Prospects for Sustainable Development
Econography: Observing Expert Capitalism
In recent years anthropologists have increasingly conducted fieldwork among economic agents and on financial practices that would have seemed foreign to our predecessors of just a generation ago. This work can be broadly categorized as the analysis of expert capitalism. Expert capitalism is the knowledge-intensive, abstract, and often technical pursuit of profit. Anthropologists conducting such research have produced germinal insights regarding t…
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism
Islamic Experiments in Global Finance by Daromir Rudnyckyj
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Spiritual economy as mesoanalytics: An ethnography of a global problem space in Indonesia
This essay develops the method of mesoanalysis to comprehend problems shared at divergent sites, but that are not reducible to universal or general forces. Drawing on fieldwork at a state-owned steel factory in Indonesia, the essay describes a specific assemblage of capitalist restructuring and Islamic reform. The essay argues that the term "spiritual economy" conceptualizes the affinities between particular interventions to mobilize religious pi…
The ethnography of the global after globalization
This collection of essays seeks to reinvigorate ethnographic investigation of the contemporary global. At a moment afflicted by transnational pandemic, political chauvinism, and disciplinary retrenchment, they offer a model for reengagement with the global. Critical work in anthropology over a decade ago was published when optimism over a "borderless world" still held sway. In the intervening years, globalization has bequeathed a world of viral c…
Exorcising Leverage: Sleight of Hand and the Invisible Hand in Islamic Finance
Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, by Patricia Sloane-White
Crisis Effects
In late 2013 I was sitting in Dinar Matahari, an airy cafeteria inside the headquarters of the Malaysian Central Bank (Bank Negara), with Anwar, a senior bank official responsible for regulating Islamic finance in the country.It was late afternoon and the cafeteria was sparsely occupied.Employees had already begun wiping down tables, signaling the end of another workday.Anwar and I had started our conversation by discussing the technical aspects …
Religion and the Morality of the Market
Subjects of Debt: Financial Subjectification and Collaborative Risk in Malaysian Islamic Finance
This article argues the Malaysian state has developed Islamic finance in conjunction with two distinct strategies of subject formation. In its first phase, in the 1980s, a central objective was the financial inclusion of Malays. Islamic finance was part of an identity-building project and intended to integrate this disadvantaged indigenous majority into the national economy. By the 2000s the state had succeeded in fostering a Malay Muslim middle …
Islamizing finance: From magical capitalism to a spiritual economy
Anthropological analyses of the assemblage of religious practice and economic action have often been viewed as evidence of mystification and have focused on the 'occult' dimensions of late capitalism. In contrast, this article approaches the magic of capitalism not in terms of occult or millennial practices, but rather as the tricks and sleight of hand techniques deployed by economic experts. The article describes how the initial iteration of Isl…
Anti‐Crisis.JanetRoitman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 157 pp
Regimes of Self-Improvement
This article examines two projects of subjectification that seek to inculcate a will to work that animates contemporary globalization. Based on ethnographic research at Krakatau Steel, one of Indonesia’s largest state-owned companies, the article contrasts the differing implementation of the American Mormon Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits training program and the Indonesian Muslim Ary Ginanjar’s Emotional and Spiritual Quotient leadership training progr…
Islamic Finance and the Afterlives of Development in Malaysia
Government regulators, Islamic scholars, finance professionals, and secular academics have recently taken steps to turn Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, into a global hub for Islamic finance. This article describes some of the actions these actors have taken to position Kuala Lumpur as the central node in this emerging financial system. This article highlights key principles of Islamic finance and the debates in which practitioners are engaged w…
Afterlives of Development
Economy in practice: Islamic finance and the problem of market reason
Proponents of Islamic finance are working to make Kuala Lumpur the "New York of the Muslim World": the central node in a global Islamic alternative to the conventional financial system. Amidst this ambitious project, I document how Islamic finance experts represent economic rationality as an object of reflection and I examine their responses to the economism intrinsic to market reason. Islamic finance is not wholly opposed to economic rationality…
Engineering Entrepreneurial Ethics: Islam after Development in Indonesia
Cet article présente l’analyse d’un programme sociotechnique en lndonésie contemporaine dont le but est de façonner les codes de l’esprit d’entreprise par rapport à l’islam. En analysant ces efforts déployés pour développer la foi, nous affirmons qu’une nouvelle forme de coutumes islamiques est en train d’être introduite pour faciliter la réforme néolibérale des entreprises publiques en entreprises privées. Fondé sur plus de deux ans de recherche…
From Wall Street toHalalStreet: Malaysia and the Globalization of Islamic Finance
Malaysia's plans to become a transnational hub for Islamic finance represent an effort to mobilize religion to create new global networks for the circulation of capital. This article first contextualizes such efforts within the broader contours of Malaysia's political history, addressing the classification of ethnicity and religion by both the colonial and postcolonial states. The article describes how Islamic finance is defined by practitioners …
Opinions: The Anthropology of Finance
One of the more salutory effects of the financial crisis in 2007-8 has been the realization, even by some economists, that numbers do not explain everything and that social forms and relations also play a major part in financial trading. Here anthropologists (and some sociologists) have come to the fore. The JBA therefore asked a number of scholars to write an opinion piece about different aspects of the anthropology of finance that interested th…
Isma'ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community by Jonah Steinberg
Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Economies of affect
This article develops the concept 'economies of affect' to argue for increased anthropological attention to the roles of affect in facilitating economic transformations. The article draws on evidence from two ethnographic field projects, one in Mexico and the other in Indonesia, to show how affect was mobilized to create subjects commensurable with neoliberal norms. We show how embracing and crying and discourses about love and grief were conjoin…
Spiritual Economies: Islam and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Indonesia
This essay argues that the convergence of religious ethics and business management knowledge illustrate the formation of what are termed spiritual economies. Spiritual economies conceptualize how economic reform and neoliberal restructuring are conceived of and acted on as matters of religious piety and spiritual virtue. The spiritual economy described consists of producing spirituality as an object of intervention, reconfiguring work as a form o…
Technologies of Servitude: Governmentality and Indonesian Transnational Labor Migration
This paper examines the techniques and networks that enable the transnational movement of migrant laborers from Indonesia. Theoretically, the paper argues that governmentality is an effective concept through which to understand political economic relations across national borders and outside state institutions. The concept is useful not only in analysis of abstract policy prescriptions, but also in the apparently mundane methods that are intended…
Afterlives of Development
Circulating tears and managing hearts: Governing through affect in an Indonesian steel factory
This article argues that moderate Islamic spiritual training programs in contemporary Indonesia entail 'governing through affect'. This formulation captures the embodied dispositions and ritual forms through which affect is mobilized to serve as a modality of government. Based on over two years of ethnographic research in Indonesia, most of which took place at Krakatau Steel in western Java, I examine the affective incitements that took place in …
Economy in practice: Islamic finance and the problem of market reason
Proponents of Islamic finance are working to make Kuala Lumpur the "New York of the Muslim World": the central node in a global Islamic alternative to the conventional financial system. Amidst this ambitious project, I document how Islamic finance experts represent economic rationality as an object of reflection and I examine their responses to the economism intrinsic to market reason. Islamic finance is not wholly opposed to economic rationality…
Subjects of Debt: Financial Subjectification and Collaborative Risk in Malaysian Islamic Finance
This article argues the Malaysian state has developed Islamic finance in conjunction with two distinct strategies of subject formation. In its first phase, in the 1980s, a central objective was the financial inclusion of Malays. Islamic finance was part of an identity-building project and intended to integrate this disadvantaged indigenous majority into the national economy. By the 2000s the state had succeeded in fostering a Malay Muslim middle …
From Wall Street toHalalStreet: Malaysia and the Globalization of Islamic Finance
Malaysia's plans to become a transnational hub for Islamic finance represent an effort to mobilize religion to create new global networks for the circulation of capital. This article first contextualizes such efforts within the broader contours of Malaysia's political history, addressing the classification of ethnicity and religion by both the colonial and postcolonial states. The article describes how Islamic finance is defined by practitioners …
Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Islamic Finance and the Afterlives of Development in Malaysia
Government regulators, Islamic scholars, finance professionals, and secular academics have recently taken steps to turn Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, into a global hub for Islamic finance. This article describes some of the actions these actors have taken to position Kuala Lumpur as the central node in this emerging financial system. This article highlights key principles of Islamic finance and the debates in which practitioners are engaged w…
Regimes of Self-Improvement
This article examines two projects of subjectification that seek to inculcate a will to work that animates contemporary globalization. Based on ethnographic research at Krakatau Steel, one of Indonesia’s largest state-owned companies, the article contrasts the differing implementation of the American Mormon Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits training program and the Indonesian Muslim Ary Ginanjar’s Emotional and Spiritual Quotient leadership training progr…
Crisis Effects
In late 2013 I was sitting in Dinar Matahari, an airy cafeteria inside the headquarters of the Malaysian Central Bank (Bank Negara), with Anwar, a senior bank official responsible for regulating Islamic finance in the country.It was late afternoon and the cafeteria was sparsely occupied.Employees had already begun wiping down tables, signaling the end of another workday.Anwar and I had started our conversation by discussing the technical aspects …
The ethnography of the global after globalization
This collection of essays seeks to reinvigorate ethnographic investigation of the contemporary global. At a moment afflicted by transnational pandemic, political chauvinism, and disciplinary retrenchment, they offer a model for reengagement with the global. Critical work in anthropology over a decade ago was published when optimism over a "borderless world" still held sway. In the intervening years, globalization has bequeathed a world of viral c…
Opinions: The Anthropology of Finance
One of the more salutory effects of the financial crisis in 2007-8 has been the realization, even by some economists, that numbers do not explain everything and that social forms and relations also play a major part in financial trading. Here anthropologists (and some sociologists) have come to the fore. The JBA therefore asked a number of scholars to write an opinion piece about different aspects of the anthropology of finance that interested th…
Payment ecologies: From pathways in a jungle of currencies to vectors of community money
University of VictoriaIn her Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, delivered in 1997 and published under the title Marginal gains in 2004, Jane Guyer describes what she calls a "jungle of currencies" circulating in the Congo River basin in the early twentieth century (Guyer 2004: 32).Guyer focuses on a collection made by a Belgian colonial official, Van de Weyer, who meticulously documented sixty-eight items, including tools, weapons, adornments, musical …
Econography: Observing Expert Capitalism
In recent years anthropologists have increasingly conducted fieldwork among economic agents and on financial practices that would have seemed foreign to our predecessors of just a generation ago. This work can be broadly categorized as the analysis of expert capitalism. Expert capitalism is the knowledge-intensive, abstract, and often technical pursuit of profit. Anthropologists conducting such research have produced germinal insights regarding t…
Islamizing finance: From magical capitalism to a spiritual economy
Anthropological analyses of the assemblage of religious practice and economic action have often been viewed as evidence of mystification and have focused on the 'occult' dimensions of late capitalism. In contrast, this article approaches the magic of capitalism not in terms of occult or millennial practices, but rather as the tricks and sleight of hand techniques deployed by economic experts. The article describes how the initial iteration of Isl…
Technologies of Servitude: Governmentality and Indonesian Transnational Labor Migration
This paper examines the techniques and networks that enable the transnational movement of migrant laborers from Indonesia. Theoretically, the paper argues that governmentality is an effective concept through which to understand political economic relations across national borders and outside state institutions. The concept is useful not only in analysis of abstract policy prescriptions, but also in the apparently mundane methods that are intended…
Market Islam in Indonesia
This paper argues that in contemporary Indonesia development is increasingly being posed as an ethical, rather than a political and economic, problem. I demonstrate this change by describing one of several moderate Islamic ‘spiritual reform’ movements that are active in state‐owned enterprises, government offices, and private companies. These initiatives combine business management principles and techniques from popular life‐coaching seminars wit…
Spiritual Economies: Islam and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Indonesia
This essay argues that the convergence of religious ethics and business management knowledge illustrate the formation of what are termed spiritual economies. Spiritual economies conceptualize how economic reform and neoliberal restructuring are conceived of and acted on as matters of religious piety and spiritual virtue. The spiritual economy described consists of producing spirituality as an object of intervention, reconfiguring work as a form o…
Economies of affect
This article develops the concept 'economies of affect' to argue for increased anthropological attention to the roles of affect in facilitating economic transformations. The article draws on evidence from two ethnographic field projects, one in Mexico and the other in Indonesia, to show how affect was mobilized to create subjects commensurable with neoliberal norms. We show how embracing and crying and discourses about love and grief were conjoin…
Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Circulating tears and managing hearts: Governing through affect in an Indonesian steel factory
This article argues that moderate Islamic spiritual training programs in contemporary Indonesia entail 'governing through affect'. This formulation captures the embodied dispositions and ritual forms through which affect is mobilized to serve as a modality of government. Based on over two years of ethnographic research in Indonesia, most of which took place at Krakatau Steel in western Java, I examine the affective incitements that took place in …
Isma'ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community by Jonah Steinberg
Engineering Entrepreneurial Ethics: Islam after Development in Indonesia
Cet article présente l’analyse d’un programme sociotechnique en lndonésie contemporaine dont le but est de façonner les codes de l’esprit d’entreprise par rapport à l’islam. En analysant ces efforts déployés pour développer la foi, nous affirmons qu’une nouvelle forme de coutumes islamiques est en train d’être introduite pour faciliter la réforme néolibérale des entreprises publiques en entreprises privées. Fondé sur plus de deux ans de recherche…
From Wall Street toHalalStreet: Malaysia and the Globalization of Islamic Finance
Malaysia's plans to become a transnational hub for Islamic finance represent an effort to mobilize religion to create new global networks for the circulation of capital. This article first contextualizes such efforts within the broader contours of Malaysia's political history, addressing the classification of ethnicity and religion by both the colonial and postcolonial states. The article describes how Islamic finance is defined by practitioners …
Opinions: The Anthropology of Finance
One of the more salutory effects of the financial crisis in 2007-8 has been the realization, even by some economists, that numbers do not explain everything and that social forms and relations also play a major part in financial trading. Here anthropologists (and some sociologists) have come to the fore. The JBA therefore asked a number of scholars to write an opinion piece about different aspects of the anthropology of finance that interested th…
Regimes of Self-Improvement
This article examines two projects of subjectification that seek to inculcate a will to work that animates contemporary globalization. Based on ethnographic research at Krakatau Steel, one of Indonesia’s largest state-owned companies, the article contrasts the differing implementation of the American Mormon Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits training program and the Indonesian Muslim Ary Ginanjar’s Emotional and Spiritual Quotient leadership training progr…
Islamic Finance and the Afterlives of Development in Malaysia
Government regulators, Islamic scholars, finance professionals, and secular academics have recently taken steps to turn Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, into a global hub for Islamic finance. This article describes some of the actions these actors have taken to position Kuala Lumpur as the central node in this emerging financial system. This article highlights key principles of Islamic finance and the debates in which practitioners are engaged w…
Afterlives of Development
Economy in practice: Islamic finance and the problem of market reason
Proponents of Islamic finance are working to make Kuala Lumpur the "New York of the Muslim World": the central node in a global Islamic alternative to the conventional financial system. Amidst this ambitious project, I document how Islamic finance experts represent economic rationality as an object of reflection and I examine their responses to the economism intrinsic to market reason. Islamic finance is not wholly opposed to economic rationality…
Anti‐Crisis.JanetRoitman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 157 pp
Islamizing finance: From magical capitalism to a spiritual economy
Anthropological analyses of the assemblage of religious practice and economic action have often been viewed as evidence of mystification and have focused on the 'occult' dimensions of late capitalism. In contrast, this article approaches the magic of capitalism not in terms of occult or millennial practices, but rather as the tricks and sleight of hand techniques deployed by economic experts. The article describes how the initial iteration of Isl…
Religion and the Morality of the Market
Subjects of Debt: Financial Subjectification and Collaborative Risk in Malaysian Islamic Finance
This article argues the Malaysian state has developed Islamic finance in conjunction with two distinct strategies of subject formation. In its first phase, in the 1980s, a central objective was the financial inclusion of Malays. Islamic finance was part of an identity-building project and intended to integrate this disadvantaged indigenous majority into the national economy. By the 2000s the state had succeeded in fostering a Malay Muslim middle …
Exorcising Leverage: Sleight of Hand and the Invisible Hand in Islamic Finance
Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, by Patricia Sloane-White
Crisis Effects
In late 2013 I was sitting in Dinar Matahari, an airy cafeteria inside the headquarters of the Malaysian Central Bank (Bank Negara), with Anwar, a senior bank official responsible for regulating Islamic finance in the country.It was late afternoon and the cafeteria was sparsely occupied.Employees had already begun wiping down tables, signaling the end of another workday.Anwar and I had started our conversation by discussing the technical aspects …
Islamic Experiments in Global Finance by Daromir Rudnyckyj
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Spiritual economy as mesoanalytics: An ethnography of a global problem space in Indonesia
This essay develops the method of mesoanalysis to comprehend problems shared at divergent sites, but that are not reducible to universal or general forces. Drawing on fieldwork at a state-owned steel factory in Indonesia, the essay describes a specific assemblage of capitalist restructuring and Islamic reform. The essay argues that the term "spiritual economy" conceptualizes the affinities between particular interventions to mobilize religious pi…
The ethnography of the global after globalization
This collection of essays seeks to reinvigorate ethnographic investigation of the contemporary global. At a moment afflicted by transnational pandemic, political chauvinism, and disciplinary retrenchment, they offer a model for reengagement with the global. Critical work in anthropology over a decade ago was published when optimism over a "borderless world" still held sway. In the intervening years, globalization has bequeathed a world of viral c…
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Islam (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Asian Studies and History (11 works) · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Theology (9 works)