PrEsentation

Our team is conducting research on the growing importance of the use of financial instruments for the social reproduction of diverse population segments of the Global South. The team questions the generation and alignment of citizen-consumer relationships to markets and the state (exploitation, dependency, protection) and analyzes how these dynamics transform family, community, solidarity networks or gender relations (contestation, reinforcement) within these population segments. Special attention is given, on the theoretical level, to the social, political, cultural and historical dimensions of these processes. On the macro level, this research is part of a critical approach to understanding the accumulation processes unfolding on the frontiers of global finance.

We focus our work on rural and peri-urban areas of Latin America and Morocco.