Chris Vasantkumar

VASANTKUMAR, Chris




Chris Vasantkumar is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University. His scholarly work has been published in journals such as Economy and Society; The Journal of Cultural Economy; Theory, Culture & Society; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space and Critique of Anthropology. He is also the co-convenor of the Future of Money Project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Since 2018, he has investigated the crisis economy in contemporary Zimbabwe, with a focus on the collapse of trust in state currency and its effects on middle‑class attitudes towards money, planning and the future. He is currently at work on a manuscript about more-than-human theories of exchange. 

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How meme coins explain the world

Non-fiction THE MESSAGE POSTED on the $TRUMP website on 12 May 2025 reads like the opening gambit of an internet scam: ‘Congratulations, if you’re in the top 220 on the leaderboard we will be contacting you in the next 24...

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