The Politics of Resistance: Informal banks in the Caribbean:

摘要: Informal banks are as relevant they were in slave times because creating financial alternatives for marginalized people. I explore this issue with an empirical study of 398 business people the slums Jamaica and Guyana. use intersectionality theorizing to explain that poor women organize local a form contestation against threat violence, partisan informal politics. Women from communities mobilize economic resources through mutual aid resist dependence on corrupt political systems exclusionary institutions. argue banker ladies reorganize money markets themselves others. By organizing inclusive programs also build social capital managing locally-based resources.