Digitised money transactions and cultures of malling
Frauds and debt-making in New Delhi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4896450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nima Lamu Yolmo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 307-331 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0069966714540239 |
| OpenAlex | W2323026095 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This article explores the sociality of digitised money transactions in the use of credit and debit cards in New Delhi. The article draws from insights in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and uses ethnographic practices to capture the complexity of digital money usage. The findings suggest that digital money and its required technological infrastructure do not operate as neutral interventions. Rather, credit cards and consumer behaviour are generated by and implicated in a range of cultural codes and practices, such as contexts for debt vulnerability and fraud. Courts, banks and the government currently appear to be behind the regulatory curve for managing these transactions which clearly seem to outpace the existing legal capacities in India. Significantly, it also emerges that credit card usage, consumer debt and digital frauds need to be grasped as linked phenomena. Money and technology, hence, I argue, operate in sociologically and politically charged contexts
Business · Commerce · Computer security · Consumer debt · Credit card · Debt · Digital currency · Ethnography · Financial transaction · Government (linguistics · Online and offline · Payment · Political science · Sociality · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · Finance · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
Distinction
Doing Cultural Studies The Story Of The Sony Walkman
The sociology of money
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
Human Values and the Market
Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption
Visions of STS
The Gay Archipelago
Ethnographic Methods
Consumption and the Making of the Middle‐Class in South Asia
Shopping Malls, Credit Cards and Global Brands
Beyond the polemics on the market
Mobilizing the Consumer
The Social Meaning of Money
Human Values and the Market
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |