Bill Maurer
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https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v2i1.99Keywords:
alternative currency, economic anthropology, payment systems, money, bitcoin, dogecoinAbstract
Professor Bill Maurer is a renowned cultural anthropologist who conducts research on law, property, money and finance, focusing on the technological infrastructures and social relations of exchange and payment. Professor Maurer graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a PhD in Anthropology. He moved to UC Irvine in 1996 as Assistant Professor, going on to become Chair of UC Irvine’s Department of Anthropology (2005-2011) and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences (2011-2013). In July 2013 he assumed his current role as Dean of UC Irvine’s School of Social Sciences. Professor Maurer has published on topics ranging from offshore financial services to mobile phone-enabled money transfers, Islamic finance, alternative currencies, and the future of money. He is founding director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and was the founding co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center in Social Computing. He is the editor of six collections, as well as the author of Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands (1997), Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States (2006), and Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason (2005). The latter received the Victor Turner Prize in 2005. Professor Maurer visited the University of Warwick in September 2014 under the auspices of Warwick’s Global Governance GRP.
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Maurer, B. (2005), Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Maurer, B. (2006), ‘The Anthropology of Money’, Annual Review of Anthropology 35(1), 15-36.
Maurer, B. (2008), ‘Resocializing Finance? Or Dressing it in Mufti? Calculating Alternatives for Cultural Economies’, Journal of Cultural Economy 1 (1), 65-78.
Maurer, B. (2012), ‘The Disunity of Finance: Alternative Practices to Western Finance’, in Knorr-Cetina, K. and A. Preda (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 413-430.
Maurer, B., T. C. Nelms and L. Swartz (2013), ‘“When Perhaps the Real Problem is Money Itself!”: The Practical Materiality of Bitcoin’, Social Semiotics23 (2), 261-277.
Rosamond, E. (2014). ‘Economic Figuration’, 6th Critical Finance Studies Conference, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, 13-15 August, 2014.
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