What are the consequences of a cashless world?

Coins and banknotes are rapidly being replaced with digital monies and cashless payment technologies. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities. Drawing from a wide range of ethnographic studies, the volume offers a concise look at how social actors respond to this change in the materiality of money.

The new anthology is co-edited by DIIS researcher Marie Kolling together with Atreyee Sen, University of Copenhagen, and Johan Lindquist, Stockholm University.

Marie Kolling has a chapter on the ‘double burden of debt’ among Brazil’s urban poor who are accessing new digitized credit in the formal economy along with cash credit in the informal economy. 

The book is free to read and download with support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark and the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences.