Negotiating debts and gifts

Financialization policies and the economic experiences of low-income social groups in Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2494446
AutoresLúcia Helena Alves Müller (0000-0001-5784-2506, autor correspondente), Lúcia Müller
Ano2014
Volume11
Fascículo1
Páginas191-221
Data de publicação2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1809-43412014000100007
OpenAlexW2040826894
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412014000100007
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas32
Referências citadas12

Over the last decade, the supply of credit and other financial services reached various sectors of the Brazilian population that had previously been marginal to these markets. Through a study of how members of these segments experience so-called 'financial inclusion,' it becomes evident that while it implies submission to rules, procedures and calculations determined by market-based rationales and moralities, the use of these financial resources and tools does not lead to the prevalence of these principles in the economic experience of their users. In everyday life, these principles are combined with and even subordinated to others (gifts, selflessness) in situations of confrontation and negotiation that involve individuals, groups, networks (family, neighbourhood groups, cohabitation) as well as the state and the financial institutions themselves

Business · Cohabitation · Debt · Economics · Financial inclusion · Financial services · Financialization · Negotiation · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Social and Economic Solidarity · Finance