Detlev Krige
Biographic Data
| ID | 129361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Detlev Krige |
| GIVEN NAMES | Detlev |
| FAMILY NAME | Krige |
| SIGNATURE | KRIGE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1791-6133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Debt/credit, money and social relationships in the underground credit markets of Soweto, South Africa
This article engages with contemporary debates about debt and money from the vantage point of an ethnographic study of unregulated, small-scale moneylending business who continues to operate in the township of Soweto's poorer neighbourhoods. Following Peebles' argument that reading poor people's unwillingness to bank with formal institutions as a sign of ignorance is unwarranted, this article describes persistent dynamics of underground credit ma…
Claiming money is a process
Comment on Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Fields of Dreams, Fields of Schemes: Ponzi Finance and Multi-Level Marketing in South Africa
The structural conditions associated with increased inequality amidst rapid change brought about by growing financialization and efforts to get the 'unbanked' sections of society into the formal financial system have created the conditions under which illegal pyramid and ponzi schemes, fake investment schemes, and legal multi-level marketing companies have been able to flourish. In contemporary Johannesburg and Soweto the originators of money mul…
We are Running for a Living: Work, Leisure and Speculative Accumulation in an Underground Numbers Lottery in Johannesburg
In this article the author presents a historically-informed ethnography of a Johannesburg underground lottery. The meaning of this lottery is tied up with the local-level sociological organisation of lottery banks and the various actors who participate in it, with changing conceptions of social class, work and leisure under the conditions of growing inequality and jobless growth, and with the everyday strategies and tactics of lottery runners and…
Fields of Dreams, Fields of Schemes: Ponzi Finance and Multi-Level Marketing in South Africa
The structural conditions associated with increased inequality amidst rapid change brought about by growing financialization and efforts to get the 'unbanked' sections of society into the formal financial system have created the conditions under which illegal pyramid and ponzi schemes, fake investment schemes, and legal multi-level marketing companies have been able to flourish. In contemporary Johannesburg and Soweto the originators of money mul…
We are Running for a Living: Work, Leisure and Speculative Accumulation in an Underground Numbers Lottery in Johannesburg
In this article the author presents a historically-informed ethnography of a Johannesburg underground lottery. The meaning of this lottery is tied up with the local-level sociological organisation of lottery banks and the various actors who participate in it, with changing conceptions of social class, work and leisure under the conditions of growing inequality and jobless growth, and with the everyday strategies and tactics of lottery runners and…
Debt/credit, money and social relationships in the underground credit markets of Soweto, South Africa
This article engages with contemporary debates about debt and money from the vantage point of an ethnographic study of unregulated, small-scale moneylending business who continues to operate in the township of Soweto's poorer neighbourhoods. Following Peebles' argument that reading poor people's unwillingness to bank with formal institutions as a sign of ignorance is unwarranted, this article describes persistent dynamics of underground credit ma…
Claiming money is a process
Comment on Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
We are Running for a Living: Work, Leisure and Speculative Accumulation in an Underground Numbers Lottery in Johannesburg
In this article the author presents a historically-informed ethnography of a Johannesburg underground lottery. The meaning of this lottery is tied up with the local-level sociological organisation of lottery banks and the various actors who participate in it, with changing conceptions of social class, work and leisure under the conditions of growing inequality and jobless growth, and with the everyday strategies and tactics of lottery runners and…
Fields of Dreams, Fields of Schemes: Ponzi Finance and Multi-Level Marketing in South Africa
The structural conditions associated with increased inequality amidst rapid change brought about by growing financialization and efforts to get the 'unbanked' sections of society into the formal financial system have created the conditions under which illegal pyramid and ponzi schemes, fake investment schemes, and legal multi-level marketing companies have been able to flourish. In contemporary Johannesburg and Soweto the originators of money mul…
Claiming money is a process
Comment on Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Debt/credit, money and social relationships in the underground credit markets of Soweto, South Africa
This article engages with contemporary debates about debt and money from the vantage point of an ethnographic study of unregulated, small-scale moneylending business who continues to operate in the township of Soweto's poorer neighbourhoods. Following Peebles' argument that reading poor people's unwillingness to bank with formal institutions as a sign of ignorance is unwarranted, this article describes persistent dynamics of underground credit ma…
Economics (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Financialization (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)