Plural and unequal: how digital payments are reshaping money

Plurality and inequality are useful keywords for discussing two recent books on the world of money and, more precisely, on the multidimensional system of digital payments. New money. How payment became social media by Lana Swartz is an historically grounded work on the cultural politics of transactional technologies at the core of an expanding payment industry. Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution by Sibel Kusimba is a perceptive and sharp ethnography about mobile money and digital payments in Kenya