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.