Dollarization in a global world: socio-anthropological perspectives
CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM RESEARCH
Registration closes: December 13, 2021
FOUNDATIONS
For at least two decades, new paradigms in the social sciences have contributed to understanding the place of money in social life. By examining in detail how monetary phenomena are embedded in people's daily lives, how they interact with institutional and cultural frameworks, and how they contribute to the distribution of power and social hierarchies, we see that they occupy a central place in the ways societies are historicized and reproduced. From this perspective, we launch this call for papers, which aims to bring together academics interested in understanding how the US dollar is embedded in the daily lives of millions of people and in institutional frameworks or "customs" outside the borders of the United States.
The role of the US dollar in consolidating US hegemony since the mid-20th century is well known. However, its transformation into a “global currency” circulating in multiple territories, extending beyond international trade and finance (not only as a currency for elites), and becoming entrenched in monetary systems—replacing or working alongside other national currencies to become a unit of account, payment, or exchange in the daily lives of vast populations in the Global South—is still a phenomenon that needs to be understood. The challenge of this joint call for papers between Escuela IDAES (UNSAM, Argentina) and CLACSO is to select proposals focused on “national” cases that can be integrated into a transnational comparative framework on how the US dollar has become and operates as a “popular” currency (Luzzi and Wilkis, 2019), legally or de facto integrated into the everyday economic practices of diverse social sectors and in highly heterogeneous contexts.
For the selected group of countries, it is expected that the proposals will be able to answer the following questions, taking as triggers works on the dollar in Argentina (Wilkis and Luzzi, 2019), Ecuador (Nelms, 2015), Haiti (Neiburg, 2016) or Nigeria (Guyer, 2004):
What stages or periods can be established regarding legal and/or de facto dollarization?
What macroeconomic circumstances have been decisive in this process?
What public controversies have arisen regarding the role of the US dollar in the country's politics, society, and economy? What policies have been implemented or attempted to counteract or reinforce this process?
How does the US dollar become integrated into monetary systems? What functions and transactions does it play a central role in? How is this process understood historically?
Which social classes or ethnic or religious groups regularly interact with the US dollar in their daily economic lives?
This Call also has the participation of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
CONTEST RULES
Applicants should preferably be researchers with accredited affiliations to CLACSO Member Centers, which they will demonstrate with a sworn statement included in the application form. This will be given particular consideration to applications from Latin America and the Caribbean. Regardless of the institution endorsing the application, if selected, the applicant responsible for the submission must present a letter of endorsement signed by the highest authority of that institution. Researchers from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are exempt from this requirement.
- Submissions of individual and collective authorship of up to three (3) members will be accepted; gender equity must be considered.
- Each team must be made up of trained researchers, that is, those who hold a master's degree, doctorate or equivalent and proven academic track record and/or researchers in training, that is, those who are pursuing master's or doctoral studies or have a degree, in the latter case they must be at least 35 years old.
- One of the trained researchers must be selected as the person responsible for registering the project. He or she will open the registration form in the system and register the other members within it.
- Each researcher or research team may only participate with one proposal in this call.
- If the scholarship is awarded and travel is necessary, the winners will have to cover the costs of medical insurance or similar expenses themselves.
Up to thirteen (13) prizes will be awarded. Each selected proposal will receive USD 500 (five hundred US dollars or its equivalent in the applicant's national currency) as recognition, upon delivery of the final article. In addition, their work will be published in a collective book.
The prize will be paid via bank transfers made to the name of the researcher responsible for the application.
CLACSO and the IDAES School (UNSAM, Argentina) will publish the final products in print and/or digital media, giving them wide publicity and dissemination through the means they deem appropriate.
The authors will cede the original publication rights of the works, given that CLACSO adheres to and defends the principles of open science and open access to knowledge, so that what is produced is easy to find, accessible, interoperable and reusable.
- The member centers to which the applicants are linked must not have any outstanding debts in the payment of membership fees corresponding to the year 2020, due on June 30 of the same year.
- Members of the Steering Committee or officials of the Executive Secretariat of CLACSO, or of the IDAES School (UNSAM, Argentina), may not participate.
- Proposals from researchers who are currently recipients of research grants, fellowships, or research projects organized by CLACSO will not be accepted. Applications from researchers who have previously received a CLACSO research grant will be accepted, provided that the recipient has fulfilled all obligations in a timely manner.
- Texts written in the four languages commonly used in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa (Spanish, English, Portuguese and French) will be accepted, depending on the country of origin of the proposal.
- A proposal for a short article to be presented at an international seminar to be held in 2022 must be submitted.
- The application should indicate the central points that will be taken into account in the final work to answer the questions posed.
- The article proposal must be attached to the registration form and must contain the following fields:
- Pseudonym
- Title
- Summary of up to 500 words that includes the objectives, research questions or hypotheses, methodology, and expected results or conclusions.
- The cited bibliography will be consulted for the preparation of the final article in case the proposal is selected.
- Endnotes: It is suggested that they be short and as few as possible.
- Bolivia
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ghana
- Haiti
- Israel
- Lebanon
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Senegal
- Venezuela
- Zimbabwe
- The Call for Proposals may be declared void or a smaller number of prizes may be selected, if the proposals submitted do not meet the required quality and consistency.
- Situations not covered in this document will be resolved by the convening institution.
- The ruling will be irrevocable and unappealable.
- The final article will be in the format of a chapter suitable for publication in an academic book. Specific formatting guidelines will be announced once the winning proposals have been selected.
- The final article will be delivered within 10 (ten) months after the result of the call is known.
- Texts written in the four languages commonly used in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa (Spanish, English, Portuguese and French) will be accepted, depending on the country of origin of the proposal.
It is mandatory that the submission be made through the online registration system provided by CLACSO. Printed submissions and submissions sent by email will not be accepted. It is recommended to access the online system to review the registration form.
- Access the CLACSO website clacso.orgThe online registration system will be available from November 5, 2021.
- Register in the CLACSO Single Registration System (SUIC). The generated username and password will be required each time you wish to access the system to consult, modify, add, or submit information for this or any other CLACSO activity. Applicants submitting collective proposals must designate one of the authors as responsible for registration. This same person will receive the corresponding monetary award if the proposal is selected by the Jury.
- Identify the proposal by indicating its title and the pseudonym of the applicant(s). Applications with pseudonyms that correspond to the applicant's first and/or last name will not be accepted. Once the corresponding fields are completed, the system will enable the uploading of the following data.
- They must complete the registration form sworn declaration indicating the applicants' affiliation with a Member Center belonging to the CLACSO network. Consult the database of member centers at: https://www.clacso.org/institucional/centros-asociados/.
- Complete the form personal and academic data and attach the curriculum vitae in free format; the digital copy of the identity document, passport or ID card; the digital copy of the highest academic degree obtained (or proof of degree in process), the photograph and the article proposal.
- Once registration is closed, the system will produce an electronic certificate of receipt that will serve as proof.
Registration closes: December 13, 2021 (Argentina).
Winners will be announced in February 2022.
Article written: February to November 2022
Article submission date: November 28, 2022
The results will be published on the CLACSO and IDAES-UNSAM School websites. The winners will be contacted by email.
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Opinion
For at least two decades, new paradigms in the social sciences have contributed to understanding the place of money in social life. The role of the US dollar in consolidating US hegemony since the mid-20th century is well known. But its transformation into a “global currency” circulating in multiple territories, extending beyond international trade and finance (not only as a currency for elites), and becoming entrenched in monetary systems, replacing or working alongside other national currencies to become a unit of account, payment, or exchange in the daily lives of vast populations in the Global South, is still a phenomenon that needs to be understood.
The challenge of this joint call between Escuela IDAES (UNSAM, Argentina) and CLACSO, with the support of CODESRIA, was to select proposals of works focused on “national” cases that allow integration into a transnational comparative framework on how the US dollar has become and operates as a “popular” currency (Luzzi and Wilkis, 2019) legally or de facto integrated into the everyday and ordinary economic practices of very varied social sectors and in extremely heterogeneous contexts.
All applications received were found to be in a condition to be evaluated by the Jury, which considered their quality, relevance, coherence and timeliness in accordance with the terms of the call for applications.
The evaluation assessed the quality of the proposals submitted, as well as their soundness and intellectual contribution to the issue addressed in the call for proposals, and based on this, it decided choose 10 (ten) Proposals will receive support of USD 500 (five hundred US dollars or its equivalent in the national currency of the applicant's country of residence) as recognition, upon delivery of the final article and inclusion of their work in the final collective publication.
The evaluation process was carried out by a jury made up of Johana Parra (University of Rosario, Colombia), Fernando Rabossi (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Ariel Wilkis (IDAES School, Argentina).
According to the evaluation carried out, the list of the 10 (ten) essay proposals selected:
| Researchers | Country of the endorsing institution | Essay title |
| Federico Neiburg | Argentina | Colonial legacies or monetary pluralities: The Haitian dollar and other Central American and Caribbean dollars |
| David Pedersen | United States | Dollarization and the Meaning of Money in El Salvador |
| Stefan Mikuska | to Canada | Dollarization and Monetary Conflict in Zimbabwe |
| Juana Isabel Ramos Ávila and Andrés Eduardo Chiriboga Tejada | Ecuador | Construction and social legitimation of the two monetary repertoires of Ecuadorian dollarization: economic elites, financial groups and media |
| Susan Rina Velasco Portillo and Omar Velasco Portillo | Ecuador | Informal institutions as a cause of persistent dollarization in Bolivia |
| Luis Emilio Martínez and Luis Santiago Sarmiento Moscoso | Ecuador | A dollar a case! Monetary practices and economic life in the public markets of Cuenca, Ecuador |
| Charles Giuseppi Castillo | Venezuela | Venezuela in the stage of its popular dollarization: from the petrodollar to the "black market trumps". |
| Omar Vázquez Heredia | Venezuela | The process of real dollarization of the Venezuelan economy and the resulting increase in workers' income: Effects on wage conditions and labor relations |
| Juan Agulló | Brazil | Enclave dollarization: the case of the Triple Frontier of the Paraná |
| Osnaide Izquierdo Quintana | Cuba | Economic strategies based on dollarization in Cuban society during the process of updating the Economic and Social Model. |
This ruling is irrevocable and cannot be appealed.
Buenos Aires, February 2, 2022
