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Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance

Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 4:30pm

Morrill Hall, 404
Cornell University Dept, 159 Central Avenue, Morrill Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA

A book talk by Daromir Rudnyckyj, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria

Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change—yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives.  This talk, based on a book of the same title, describes efforts to create a transnational economy free of debt. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, the talk illustrates how the state, led by the central bank, seeks to make the country’s capital Kuala Lumpur “the New York of the Muslim world”—the central node of global financial activity conducted in accordance with Islam. The talk will illustrate how Islamic financial experts have undertaken ambitious experiments to create more stable economies and stronger social solidarities by facilitating risk- and profit-sharing, enhanced entrepreneurial skills, and more collaborative economic action. Building on scholarship that reveals the impact of financial devices on human activity, the talk describes how Islamic finance is deployed to fashion subjects who are at once more pious Muslims and more ambitious entrepreneurs. In so doing, the talk shows how experts seek to create a new “geo-economics” centered in Southeast Asia—a global Islamic alternative to the conventional financial network centered on New York, London, and Tokyo. A groundbreaking analysis of a timely subject, Beyond Debt tells the captivating story of efforts to re-center international finance in an emergent Islamic global city and, ultimately, to challenge the very foundations of conventional finance.

 

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Event Type

Author Appearance, Lecture

Departments

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Comparative Muslim Societies Program, Southeast Asia Program

Tags

Global Cornell, cashum, isscal

Website

https://einaudi.cornell.edu/

Contact E-Mail

btd37@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Bari Doeffinger

Contact Phone

607-255-5483

Speaker

Daromir Rudnyckyj

Speaker Affiliation

University of Victoria (Anthropology)

Dept. Web Site

https://einaudi.cornell.edu/

Disability Access Information

Wheelchair accessible. Please contact us with questions or requests.

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public

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