Mrinalini Tankha
Biographic Data
| ID | 81148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mrinalini Tankha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mrinalini |
| FAMILY NAME | Tankha |
| SIGNATURE | TANKHA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethnographers as Intermediaries: Plurality as a Double-Edged Sword in Web3
This paper addresses a misalignment between market motivations and community needs in Web3, arguing that comparative ethnographic work can identify strategic opportunities in the industry. Comparing findings across different design research projects, we show how Web3 builders and founders are driving a plurality of projects and products and enabling cross-chain operability to build diverse blockchain-based ecosystems. Although this plurality is g…
Detained settlements: The infrastructures and temporalities of digital financial transactions between the United States and Cuba
In this article, I trace how payment and money transfer systems in Cuba have expanded from underground courier services to digital platforms such as Airbnb and Bitcoin wallets. I focus here on payments being halted and deferred because of U.S. embargo restrictions that prevent correspondent relationships with Cuban retail banks and constantly flag transactions initiated in Cuba. Cubans and visitors to Cuba operating on these digital platforms are…
Mapping the intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value
As financial transactions are increasingly digitized, old and new kinds of intermediaries are only expanding in importance. Intermediaries, mediators and brokers sit at critical junctures and operate between diverse financial arenas and pathways. We argue that mapping the intermediate entails identifying how different kinds of actors—human and non-human, objects and interfaces, institutions and practices—delimit or reify but also stitch together …
Chiastic Currency Spheres: Postsocialist “Conversions” in Cuba’s Dual Economy
Mapping the intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value
As financial transactions are increasingly digitized, old and new kinds of intermediaries are only expanding in importance. Intermediaries, mediators and brokers sit at critical junctures and operate between diverse financial arenas and pathways. We argue that mapping the intermediate entails identifying how different kinds of actors—human and non-human, objects and interfaces, institutions and practices—delimit or reify but also stitch together …
Detained settlements: The infrastructures and temporalities of digital financial transactions between the United States and Cuba
In this article, I trace how payment and money transfer systems in Cuba have expanded from underground courier services to digital platforms such as Airbnb and Bitcoin wallets. I focus here on payments being halted and deferred because of U.S. embargo restrictions that prevent correspondent relationships with Cuban retail banks and constantly flag transactions initiated in Cuba. Cubans and visitors to Cuba operating on these digital platforms are…
Chiastic Currency Spheres: Postsocialist “Conversions” in Cuba’s Dual Economy
Mapping the intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value
As financial transactions are increasingly digitized, old and new kinds of intermediaries are only expanding in importance. Intermediaries, mediators and brokers sit at critical junctures and operate between diverse financial arenas and pathways. We argue that mapping the intermediate entails identifying how different kinds of actors—human and non-human, objects and interfaces, institutions and practices—delimit or reify but also stitch together …
Detained settlements: The infrastructures and temporalities of digital financial transactions between the United States and Cuba
In this article, I trace how payment and money transfer systems in Cuba have expanded from underground courier services to digital platforms such as Airbnb and Bitcoin wallets. I focus here on payments being halted and deferred because of U.S. embargo restrictions that prevent correspondent relationships with Cuban retail banks and constantly flag transactions initiated in Cuba. Cubans and visitors to Cuba operating on these digital platforms are…
Ethnographers as Intermediaries: Plurality as a Double-Edged Sword in Web3
This paper addresses a misalignment between market motivations and community needs in Web3, arguing that comparative ethnographic work can identify strategic opportunities in the industry. Comparing findings across different design research projects, we show how Web3 builders and founders are driving a plurality of projects and products and enabling cross-chain operability to build diverse blockchain-based ecosystems. Although this plurality is g…
Business (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Commerce (2 works) · Currency (2 works) · Digital currency (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Intermediary (2 works) · Monetary economics (2 works)