Promises of Tomorrow

Calculating the Future in the Financial Practices of Today

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v4n7.235

Keywords:

future, financial practices, imaginaries of the future

Abstract

The problem of future calculations in financial practices has been a recurring theme in the Seminar on the Anthropology of Money and Economics that we organized at CIESAS Occidente. The articles in this section have been the subject of discussion and dialogue in that seminar; they explore the imaginaries of the future from different sectors of society in Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and the Basque Country.

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Author Biography

  • Magdalena Villarreal, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

    Magdalena Villarreal Cum Laude in Anthropology from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Senior Research Professor C at CIESAS Occidente. SNI Level III. He has coordinated multiple research and evaluation projects with Mexican and international institutions. He is currently conducting an international seminar on money, economics and finance from an anthropological perspective, in coordination with the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California at Irvine. His publications include Anthropology of debt, Women, finance and economic violence in marginalized neighborhoods of Guadalajara, Microfinance in the interstices of development, Juggling Currencies in Transborder Contexts and Microfinance, Debt and Overindebtedness.

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Villarreal, Magdalena (2008). “Sacando cuentas: prácticas financieras y marcos de calculabilidad en el México rural”. Crítica en Desarrollo: Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Dossier La vida social de la economía, núm. 2, pp. 131-149.

— (2010). “Cálculos financieros y fronteras sociales en una economía de deuda y morralla”. Civitas. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, vol. 10, núm 3, pp. 392-409. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2010.3.8338 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2010.3.8338

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Published

2021-03-23

How to Cite

Promises of Tomorrow: Calculating the Future in the Financial Practices of Today. (2021). Encartes, 4(7), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v4n7.235