Sense-making of digital money among female peripheral agents: a short ethnographic study of informal workers in North India

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Anwesha Chakraborty, Jillet Sarah Sam
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/154
Language English Pages 19 P. 60-78 File size 197 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2019-154004
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This essay compares how digital money is conceptualized by the government with sense-making and practices among women workers in North India. The government promotes and envisions a future with large sections of the population within the fold of ‘Digital India’. The policy rhetoric emphasizes capacity building, both in terms of improving infrastructure and training. However, in its positive narratives, the inclusion of peripherals in the government of the digital economy. Further, through focus group discussions and interviews carried out with women working at the intersection of formal and informal economy.

Keywords: Digital money, informal economy, cashless, gendered money

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Anwesha Chakraborty, Jillet Sarah Sam, Sense-making of digital money among female peripheral agents: a short ethnographic study of informal workers in North India in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 154/2019, pp 60-78, DOI: 10.3280/SL2019-154004