The Cultural Life of Money and Finance podcast explores money and finance through the arts and humanities – asking new questions about finance, the global financial system, and financial behaviour in the twenty-first century. In a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, we look at how money is being, and has been, thought about in different contexts – across historical, cultural, ethical, religious, social, and material settings.
The Cultural Life of Money and Finance project is based at the University of Leeds, and is led by Matthew Treherne, Rachel Muers and Mark Davis. The project is supported by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, and by the Leeds Creative Labs scheme at the Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds.
In this episode, Matthew is joined by Isabella Clough Marinaro (John Cabot University), to discuss her work on money in the informal economy in Italy, especially in Rome. Isabella discusses issues relating to the importance of cash in the informal economy, the functions of formal and informal credit, the way in which financial practices in the informal economy affect experiences of time and temporality, and the relationship between money and shame.
Isabella Clough Marinaro is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at John Cabot University in Rome. For more information on her work, see https://www.johncabot.edu/faculty/isabella-clough_marinaro.
For more information on the Culture Life of Money and Finance Project, please visit https://culturallifeofmoney.leeds.ac.uk, and follow us on Twitter @CulturalMoney.
The podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler.
