book
A Cultural History of Money in the Modern Age. With D. Pedersen. Edited volume for Bloomsbury's Cultural History series.
journal articles & book chapters
Social Payments: Innovation, Trust, Bitcoin, and the Sharing Economy. With B. Maurer, L. Swartz, & S. Mainwaring. Theory, Culture & Society, 2017. [prepublication pdf]
Accounts. Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff, 2017. [prepublication pdf]
Riding the Rails of Mobile Payments: Financial Inclusion, Mobile Phones, and Infrastructure. With S.C. Rea, U. Dalinghaus, & B. Maurer. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, 2016. [OA version]
"The Problem of Delimitation": Parataxis, Bureaucracy, and Ecuador's Popular and Solidarity Economy. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2015. [prepublication pdf] — awarded the Dolores Cacuango Prize for Best Essay in Ecuadorian Studies
Pliegues de la Economía Popular y Solidaria. El Laberinto de la Moneda y las Finanzas: La Vida Social de la Economía, 2015. [prepublication pdf]
Materiality, Symbol and Complexity in the Anthropology of Money. With B. Maurer. The Psychological Science of Money, 2014. [OA version]
“When Perhaps the Real Problem is Money Itself!": The Practical Materiality of Bitcoin. With B. Maurer & L. Swartz. Social Semiotics, 2013. [OA version]
“Bridges to Cash": Channelling Agency in Mobile Money. With B. Maurer & S.C. Rea. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2013. [OA version] — reprinted in Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones, 2018.
The Zombie Bank and the Magic of Finance, or: How to Write a History of Crisis. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2012. [prepublication pdf]
Harvesting Failure from the Field: An Ethnographic Apprenticeship in Coping with the Unexpected. With M. Amrith, J. Johnson, D. Martin, & M. Murawski. Cambridge Anthropology, 2008/2009. [pdf]
working papers
Mobile Money: The First Decade. With S.C. Rea. Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, 2017.
Digital Payment Client Uptake Warning Signs and Ways Forward. With B. Maurer, J. Fan, S. Musaraj, I. Small, E. Reddy, & N. Dobson. Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, 2013. [pdf]
essays, reviews, & commentaries
“Introduction: Speculative Anthropologies.” With R. Anderson, E.L. Backe, E. Reddy, and J. Trombley. Theorizing the Contemporary. Cultural Anthropology website, 2018.
“Invisible City: A Speculative Guide.” Theorizing the Contemporary. Cultural Anthropology website, 2018.
"On Brutal Culture." With D. Umney, D. O'Brien, F. Muniesa, L. Moor, L. McFall, M. Cooper, & P. Campbell. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2017. [pdf]
"Give and Take, Part One: Demonetization’s Pragmatics and Politics" and "Give and Take, Part Two: Demonetization and the Pedigrees of Money." With B. Maurer. Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology website, 2017.
Neoliberalism’s Strange Bedfellows and the Limits of Distribution. Review of Give a Man a Fish, by James Ferguson. Current Anthropology, 2016. [prepublication pdf]
alt.economy: Strategies, Tensions, Challenges. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2016.
"Ecuador Bans Bitcoin!" A Monetary Mix-Up. King’s Review, 2015.
Material Histories of Debt and Payment: Assembling the Transactions Archive. With R.J. Kett. Anthropology News, 2013. [pdf]
Conference Encounters: Challenging Boundaries and Rethinking Ethics at the 2008 AAA Annual Meeting. With C. Fouratt & J. Li. Anthropology Today, 2009.
blogposts, interviews, notes, and more
Toying with Our Teleologies: Reflections on What SF Can Do for Anthropology. The Geek Anthropologist, April 2018.
Mobile Money: The First Decade. Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion blog, November 2017.
Olivier Godechot: A Classic Work, in Translation. Journal of Cultural Economy, July 2016. [OA version]
Is It Art? Is It a Hoax? Hedging Precarity and Protecting the Commonfare: An Interview with Akseli Virtanen. Journal of Cultural Economy website, February 2016.
AAA 2015 Preview: Undisciplining Law and Economy. Association for Political and Legal Anthropology website, November 2015.
Bitcoins, Blockchains, and Bolstering e-Payments. Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion blog, April 2015.
Reseña y Discusión de Las Sospechas del Dinero de Ariel Wilkis. Estudios de la Economía, December 2014.
Estudios de la Economía: An Interview with José Ossandón (pdf). Accounts: ASA Economic Sociology Newsletter, Fall 2014.
Immersion: Four Beginnings for an Anthropology of Big Data, June 2014.
An Interview with Michel Anteby (pdf). Accounts: ASA Economic Sociology Newsletter, Fall 2013.
25.000:1. Estudios de la Economía, August 2013.
Marketing Finance in the Aftermath of Crisis. Charisma Network, September 2012.
Las Imágenes de la Solidaridad y lo Popular: El Proyecto de Imaginar una Economía Popular y Solidaria en el Ecuador. Estudios de la Economía, August 2012. Reposted on Portal de Economía Solidaria.
The Buzz of Commerce Along the Ruta del Comprador in Quito, Ecuador. Sound Ethnography, May 2012.
Las Formas de la Deuda y la Confianza en un Mercado de Quito, Ecuador. Estudios de la Economía, April 2012.