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SUMMARY:From Paucity to Sanctity of Trust: Ethics of Cryptocurrency Use for Muslims in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:by Gulzhan Begeyeva \nSince 2017\, Central Asia has witnessed a burgeoning interest in cryptocurrency\, propelled by the region’s emergence as a hub for crypto mining activities amid increasing restrictions in China. This\, coupled with some regional governments’ intent to capitalize on the market for decentralized finance\, has sparked notable public debates regarding the alignment of digital currencies with Islamic financial principles. As Central Asian Muslims question cryptocurrency’s permissibility and adal/haram nature\, local religious institutions and experts have emerged as arbiters to establish the reliability and trustworthiness of the crypto financial instruments within the regional context. As a matter of fact\, in 2019 and 2022 the muftiate of Kazakhstan has publicly proscribed the use of cryptocurrency for the country’s Muslims by issuing and reiterating a respective fatwa. Furthermore\, albeit as of February 2024 the mufti of Kyrgyzstan hasn’t provided any fatwa on this matter\, the country’s muftiate members actively advocate against the use of cryptocurrency among its public. \nUsing this case study of the public discussions around cryptocurrency in Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan and elsewhere in the region\, our ongoing interdisciplinary research project aims to explore the growing field of Islamic financial ethics in Central Asia. We intend to understand how local religious authorities navigate the nexus between the state imperatives\, local demand for Islamic financial expertise\, and the global production of Islamic knowledge. One key aspect of our study is examining the link between sacred and trust. In particular\, by focusing on how the governing bodies of Islam in Central Asia\, i.e. muftiates\, construe the phenomenon of cryptocurrency\, we theorise how sacredness/sanctity can function as a powerful mechanism that insures trust and\, as a result\, cooperation among rational actors. Among other things\, the present work illustrates what appears to be an altogether neglected aspect of the study of the concept of trust in current economic orthodoxy. Namely\, it argues that David Krep’s (1990) paradigm setting article on trust in economics\, which offers a solution for the problem of absence of trust arising from unforeseen contingencies occurring in transactions\, suffers from theoretical incompleteness. The latter concerns the element of sacredness/sanctity that remedies the absence of trust dilemma in Krep’s model. To demonstrate this dynamic\, the current study applies the thesis stemming from the economy of conventions – a French school thought that espouses interdisciplinary and institutionalist approach in economics.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/from-paucity-to-sanctity-of-trust-ethics-of-cryptocurrency-use-for-muslims-in-central-asia/
LOCATION:Turan University\, Almaty\, Kazakhstan
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SUMMARY:Post-Fieldwork Workshop
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SUMMARY:Revisiting Anthropology and History: Fieldwork\, Archive\, Temporality
DESCRIPTION:While the disciplines of anthropology and history have developed in a reciprocal relationship of rapprochements\, mutual borrowings and fierce annexations\, more recently\, explicit reflection on this relationship have become rare. Anthropologists engage with temporality\, the past\, and the archive without necessarily making recourse to historiography. Historians\, as they engage in reflections on globalizations – past and present – often ignore anthropology’s conceptual toolkit. However\, there are at least two areas in which a cross-disciplinary engagement is promising. For both anthropology and history\, an engagement with each other enlarges an understanding of temporality\, both with respect to frames of analysis and ways of narrating scholarship. Such an engagement also expands spaces of scholarly analysis that are defined by fieldwork and the archive\, i.e.\, employing archival methods for fieldwork as well as conceptualizing the archive as a field-site. \nThis workshop\, addressing graduate students in both anthropology and history\, aims to explore this constellation from two perspectives: 1. the workshop seeks to engage the participants in discussions on the role of history in anthropological approaches to social worlds. 2. participants analyze\, employing an anthropological view of historical research\, the timeliness and situatedness of their own research projects in the present. \nFurthermore\, the workshop will address\, amongst others\, the following questions: What role can fieldwork play in historical work? What might be the position of the archive in anthropological research? How can we think about change over time in anthropological research and how should we reflect on the presence of the present in historiographical work? \nProgram: Revisiting History and Anthropology
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LOCATION:Geneva Graduate Institute\, Geneva\, Switzerland
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