This article argues that the original thrust of the moral economy concept has been
understated and attempts to cast it in a new light by bringing class and capital back into the …

Remittances have moral dimensions that, albeit implicitly addressed in migration literature,
have not yet been the focus of explicit attention and analysis by social scientists. Building on …

In this article I discuss some of the theoretical implications of adopting moral economy as an
approach to analysing new forms of flexible production and work. Despite a growing interest …

This article uses the lens of moral economies to examine the everyday experience of
eviction, precarious housing and grassroots activism in contemporary London. Situated …

Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even
deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands …

As research on ethical consumers and consumption practices has continued to grow, a
complimentary body of work concerned less with ethical consumption but more with ethics in …

Microfinance is widely portrayed as a tool that empowers poor women to challenge
constraining social institutions and make better, rational choices that will enable them to …

This article is inspired by anthropology of personhood, morality, and ethics. It features an
ethnographic portrayal of a man who is actively shaping himself as a person. He does so in …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the town of Viñales, this article addresses
some key features, stakes and debates that characterize privately run tourist …

This article explores how the notion of happiness is employed in order to obscure the moral
ambiguity and intimate uncertainties of commercial surrogacy. My ethnographic data …