Podcast: Currency Currency Experiments & Value Conversions
Co-hosted by Daromir Rudnyckyj and Ferda Nur Demirci
Episode 1: Carbon Banking, Climate Change, and the Future of Money: a conversation with Gustav Peebles, April 21, 2025.
Episode 2: Gold Matters: Thinking with Gold in Finance and Extraction: A Conversation with Elizabeth Ferry, May 29, 2025.
Episode 3: “Every Dollar Has Its Own Problem:” Navigating Multicurrency Zimbabwe: A conversation with Chris Vasantkumar, June 26, 2025
Research Articles
Rudnyckyj, Daromir. 2025. “Payment ecologies: From pathways in a jungle of currencies to vectors of community money.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 15(2), pp.557-561.
Maurer, Bill, Chris Vasantkumar, Susanna Trnka, Jesse Hession Grayman, and L. L. Wynn. 2025. “Crypto, charisma, and Trump’s chaos economy: AE interviews Bill Maurer and Chris Vasantkumar.” American Ethnologist 52 (2), 150-158.
Vasantkumar, Chris. 2024. “Routinizing and scrutinizing: Divergent yet potentially complementary modes of valuing money’s material forms.” Journal of Material Culture, 29(2), pp.158-176.
Vasantkumar, Chris. 2023. “Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019). Journal of Cultural Economy, 16(6), pp.829-851.
Op-eds and Media Coverage
States adapt to cryptocurrency. revuegestion.ca, September 8, 2025.
Beyond just cryptocurrencies, digital money has changed how we live. The Conversation, September 14, 2022.
Cryptocurrency: a “perfect” and “evolving” tool to launder money. radio-canada.ca, June 20, 2022.
Crypto-Currency’s Place in a World full of Currency. The Adam Stirling Show on CFAX 1070, March 21, 2022.
Expert Q&A on cryptocurrency, payment systems and future of money. UVic News, March 16, 2022.
Resources on Community Currencies
Monneta. Network for Currency Diversity.