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Author:
Natile, Serena, author.
Title:
The exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion : mobile money, gendered walls / Serena Natile.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xiii, 165 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Banks and banking, Mobile--Kenya.
Mobile commerce--Kenya.
Microfinance--Kenya.
Financial exclusion--Technological innovations.--Technological innovations.
Women--Africa--Economic conditions.
Banks and banking, Mobile.
Microfinance.
Mobile commerce.
Women--Economic conditions.
Africa.
Kenya.
Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Kent Law School, 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- A Brief Herstory Of Gender, Development And Financial Inclusion -- Theorising Gender and Financial Inclusion: Opportunity Vs. Redistribution -- The Story Of M-Pesa In Kenya: A Gender Reading -- The Gendered Narratives of Mobile Money: From Social Entrepreneurship to Philanthrocapitalism -- The Gendered Governance of Mobile Money: From Local to Global and Back -- Conclusions: The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion
Summary:
"Focusing on Kenya's path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
RIPE series in global political economy
ISBN:
036717958X
9780367179588
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1124778585
LCCN:
2019049128
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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