Currencies Of Imagination

Author : Ivan V. Small
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501716904

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In Vietnam, international remittances from the Vietnamese diaspora are quantitatively significant and contribute important economic inputs. Yet beyond capital transfer, these diasporic remittance economies offer insight into an unfolding transformation of Vietnamese society through the extension of imaginations and ontological possibilities that accompany them. Currencies of Imagination examines the complex role of remittances as money and as gifts that flow across, and mediate between, transnational kinship networks dispersed by exile and migration. Long distance international gift exchanges and channels in a neoliberal political economy juxtapose the increasing cross-border mobility of remittance financial flows against the relative confines of state bounded bodies. In this contradiction Ivan V. Small reveals a creative space for emergent imaginaries that disrupt local structures and scales of desire, labor and expectation. Furthermore, the particular characteristics of remittance channels and mediums in a global economy, including transnational mobility and exchangeable value, affect and reflect the relations, aspirations, and orientations of the exchange participants. Small traces a genealogy of how this phenomenon has shifted through changing remittance forms and transfer infrastructures, from material and black market to formal bank and money services. Transformations in the affective and institutional relations among givers, receivers, and remittance facilitators accompany each of these shifts, illustrating that the socio-cultural work of remittances extends far beyond the formal economic realm they are usually consigned to.

Author : Ivan Victor Small
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Emigrant remittances
ISBN : 1501716875

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"This book examines the sociocultural dynamics of migration and remittance flows between Vietnam and the United States since 1975"--

Author : Ivan Victor Small
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:858132997

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Currencies of Imagination by Ivan Victor Small Pdf

In Vietnam, international remittances are significant, estimated at around seven billion dollars annually or 11.5% of GDP. Yet beyond capital transfer, diasporic remittance economies are key nodes to witnessing an unfolding transformation of Vietnamese society through the extension of imaginations, identities, and ontological possibilities that accompany them. In this dissertation I examine the role of remittance gifting in mediating transnational kinship networks dispersed by exile and migration. Drawing on twenty months of fieldwork in Vietnam, France, and the United States, I argue that long distance international gift exchanges in the neoliberal political economy juxtapose the mobility of remittance financial flows against the confines of state bound bodies. In this contradiction is revealed a creative space for emergent social imaginaries that disrupt local structures and contingencies of desire and expectation. Furthermore, the particular characteristics of remittance gift monetary mediums and channels in a global economy, including transnational mobility and exchangeable value, affect the relationships, aspirations, and identities of the exchange participants. I trace a genealogy of how this phenomenon has shifted through changing remittance forms and transfer channels, from material and black market forms to formal bank and money service transfers. Significant transformations in the social and institutional relations among givers, receivers, and remittance facilitators accompany each of these shifts, illustrating that the socio-cultural work of remittances extends far beyond the economic realm they are usually consigned to. Remittance economies link participants to alternative social terrains through the intimacies of exchange. They impact recipients through the transfer of capital, but also via the interactions of familiar bodies and unfamiliar subjectivities. The imaginaries emerging from remittance exchange offer insight into not only the already widely examined processes of collective diaspora identity formation, but also the identities of those who never left, yet whose spatial and social identities and aspirations are inevitably expanded, challenged, and emplaced by their contingency on and imagined identification with the diasporic Other. The classic question of the gift's social role in anthropology is thus revisited in a globalized world in which the gift's long distance mobility transforms its representations and significance among the networks that exchange and encounter it.

Author : James Davis Woolf,Charles B. Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Business
ISBN : OCLC:4261165

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How to Use Your Imagination to Make Money by James Davis Woolf,Charles B. Roth Pdf

Author : Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198830023

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Imagination: a Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei Pdf

Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, this book explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing. It demonstrates how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways, making possible our experience of a meaningful world.

Author : James Davis Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Business
ISBN : OCLC:9354213

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How to Use Your Imagination to Make Money ... by James Davis Woolf Pdf

Author : James D. Woolf,Charles B. Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1616460660

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How to Use Your Imagination to Make Money by James D. Woolf,Charles B. Roth Pdf

First published in 1949, this business classic (written by two men experienced in sales and advertising) melded practical business sense with the ignition for business success: imagination.The examples may be historical, but the principles remain sound even today. Starting, establishing, marketing, developing, and maintaining a business all require the proper use of imaginative ideas to keep ahead of the competition. Even working your way up the ladder in someone else's business requires imagination. Woolf and Roth cover the basics of generating ideas, big and small, providing numerous examples of how individuals, even those starting with little or nothing, have had success.

Author : Heinz Tschachler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476605838

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The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe by Heinz Tschachler Pdf

In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe's relation to the world of banking and money in antebellum America. He contends that Poe gave the full force of his censure to the acrimonious debates about America's money, Andrew Jackson's bank war, the panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression, and the nation's inability to furnish a "sound and uniform currency." Poe's attitude is overt in his early satires, more subdued in "The Gold-Bug," and almost an undercurrent in writings that enter into and historicize the discovery of gold in California. In Poe's writings much is concealed, though his art also reveals while it conceals, in this instance, a deep felt desire for an authority that would guarantee a measure of permanence and continuity to the nation' s currency. That kind of currency was finally furnished by Abraham Lincoln (both were born in 1809; Poe died in 1849), at one time a dedicated reader of Poe's tales and sketches. Wielding his "power of regulation," Lincoln came to save the Union not just militarily but also economically. Under him, the United States government finally provided the kind of "sound and uniform currency" that Poe in his writings could only name and rehearse.

Author : Bernard Lietaer,Jacqui Dunne
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609942984

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Rethinking Money by Bernard Lietaer,Jacqui Dunne Pdf

This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity. In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs, but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. In Rethinking Money, Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne explore the origins of our current monetary system—built on bank debt and scarcity—revealing how its limitations give rise to so many serious problems. The authors then present stories of ordinary people and communities using new money, working in cooperation with national currencies, to strengthen local economies, create work, beautify cities, provide education, and more. These real-world examples are just the tip of the iceberg—over four thousand cooperative currencies are already in existence. The book provides remedies for challenges faced by governments, businesses, nonprofits, local communities, and even banks. It demystifies a complex and critically important topic and offers meaningful solutions that will do far more than restore prosperity—it will provide the framework for an era of sustainable abundance.

Author : Omedi Ochieng
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268103323

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Intellectual Imagination by Omedi Ochieng Pdf

The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual practices is best envisioned in light of a comprehensive critical contextual ontology—that is, a systematic account of the context, forms, and dimensions in and through which knowledge and aesthetic practices are created, embodied, translated, and learned. Such an ontology not only accounts for the embeddedness of intellectual practices in the deep structures of politics, economics, and culture, but also in turn demonstrates the constitutive power of critical inquiry. It is against this background that Ochieng unfolds a multidimensional and capacious theory of knowledge and aesthetics. In a critique of the oppositional binaries that now reign in the modern and postmodern academy—binaries that pit fact versus value, science versus the humanities, knowledge versus aesthetics—Ochieng argues for the inextricable intertwinement of reason, interpretation, and the imagination. The book offers a close and deep reading of North Atlantic and African philosophers, thereby illuminating the resonances and contrasts between diverse intellectual traditions. The upshot is an incisively rich, layered, and textured reading of the archetypal intellectual styles and aesthetic forms that have fired the imagination of intellectuals across the globe. Ochieng’s book is a radical summons to a practice and an imagination of the intellectual life as the realization of good societies and good lives.

Author : Joseph Macardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : NYPL:33433023684065

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Outlines of Banks, Banking, and Currency by Joseph Macardy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Commerce
ISBN : OSU:32435051157592

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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136719677

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The Politics of Imagination by Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand Pdf

The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly central place of the media in our lives, the political role of imagination has undergone a massive quantitative and a qualitative change. As such, there has been a revival of interest in the concept of imagination, as the intimate connections between our capacity to form images and politics becomes more and more evident. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical outlooks, The Politics of Imagination examines how the power of imagination reverberates in the various ambits of social and political life: in law, history, art, gender, economy, religion and the natural sciences. And it will be of considerable interest to those with contemporary interests in philosophy, political philosophy, political science, legal theory, gender studies, sociology, nationalism, identity studies, cultural studies, and media studies.

Author : Ron Klein,Ray Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1600370349

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Turn Your Imagination Into Money by Ron Klein,Ray Giles Pdf

It is a clear easy to use and impement guide to Turn Your Imagination Into Money! Anyone or any company can turn their imagination into money.

Author : Edmund Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Currency question
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117419692

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Bank of England Charter, Currency, Limited Liability Companies, and Free Trade by Edmund Phillips Pdf