The Politics of Resistance: Informal banks in the Caribbean |
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Authors: | Caroline Shenaz Hossein |
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Affiliation: | 1. 238 Woodfield Road, Toronto, ON, M4L 2W7, Canada
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Abstract: | Informal banks are as relevant as they were in slave times because they are creating financial alternatives for marginalized people. I explore this issue with an empirical study of 398 business people in the slums of Jamaica and Guyana. I use intersectionality theorizing to explain that poor women organize local banks as a form of contestation against the threat of violence, partisan and informal politics. Women from poor communities mobilize economic resources through mutual aid to resist dependence on corrupt political systems and exclusionary financial institutions. I argue that the banker ladies reorganize money markets for themselves and others. By organizing inclusive financial programs the banker ladies also build social capital through managing locally-based economic resources. |
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