PUBLICATIONS
Books
Kar, S. 2018. Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance(Stanford: Stanford University Press.
*Winner of the 2020 Bernard Cohn Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) – South Asia Council.*
Refereed Articles
Kar, S. (2023). Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women. Journal of Cultural Economy. [Open Access]
C. Schuster & Kar, S. (2021). Subprime Empire: On the Inbetweeness of Finance. Current Anthropology, 62(4), 389-411. [Open Access]
Kar, S. & Bradbury, J. (2020). Buddha and Nilima: Communism and the City. Contemporary South Asia, 8(4), 485-497
Kar, S. (2018). Securitizing women: Gender, precaution, and risk in Indian finance. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 43(2), 301-325.
Kar, S. (2017). Relative indemnity: risk, insurance, and kinship in Indian microfinance. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(2), 302-319.
Kar, S. (2017). Austerity welfare: social security in the era of finance. Anthropology Today, 33(5), 12-15.
Kar, S. (2017). Crisis, again: on demonetization and microfinance. Cultural Anthropology Hotspots.
Kar, S., & Schuster, C. (2016). Comparative projects and the limits of choice: ethnography and microfinance in India and Paraguay. Journal of Cultural Economy, 9(4), 347-363.
Kar, S. (2013). Recovering debts: Microfinance loan officers and the work of “proxy‐creditors” in India. American Ethnologist, 40(3), 480-493.
Book Chapters
Kar, S. (2021). Consuming Credit: Microfinance and Making Consumer Markets at the Bottom of the Pyramid. In Donner, H. & Bhattacharya, B. (Eds.) Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography. London: Routledge.
Kar, S. (2020). Accumulation by saturation: Infrastructures of financial inclusion, cash transfers, and financial flows. In, Financialization: Relational Approaches, Hann C. and Kalb D. (Eds), New York: Berghahn, pp. 64-85. Read on Google Books here.
Other Publications
Kar, S. (2016). A Tale of Two Rooms: Debt, Success and Freedom in Indian Microfinance. Allegra Lab.
Access Dr. Kar’s publications on academia.edu here.
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