Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Introduction
5. 1. Money and Moralities. Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights 13
6. Part I. Money and Moral Selfhood in the Market Economy
7. 2. The Moral Economy of Casino Work in Singapore 39
8. 3. Mobility and Flexible Moralities. Insights from the Case Study of Vietnamese Market Traders in Moscow 59
9. 4. ‘Billions and the Retrogression of Knowledge’? Wealth, Modernity, and Ethical Citizenship in a Northern Vietnamese Trading Village 85
10. Part II. Social Currencies and the Morality of Gender
11. 5. House, Car, or Permanent Residency? Higher-Wage Chinese Migrant Men’s Flexible Masculinities in Singapore 107
12. 6. ‘Your Vagina is a Rice Paddy’. Hegemonic Femininities and the Evolving Moralities of Sex in Chiang Mai, Thailand 133
13. 7. The Gender and Morality of Money in the Indian Transnational Family 161
14. Part III. The Social Life of Money in Asian Moral Economies
15. 8. Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations. ‘Morality-in-Motion’ among Young People in the Philippines 189
16. 9. Christianity as the Sixth Aspirational ‘C’. Megachurches and the Changing Landscape of Religion, Prosperity, and Wealth in Singapore 213
17. 10. Cash, Women, and the Nation. Tales of Morality about Lao Banknotes in Times of Rapid Change 241
18. Epilogue
19. 11. Engendering Money and Morality in Asia 269
20. Index 275