Smoki Musaraj
Books
Tales from Albarado: Pyramid Firms, Value and Social Transformation in Postsocialist Albania*.* (Under contract with Cornell University Press.)
2018 [Co-edited With Bill Maurer and Ivan Small]Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Inclusion and Design. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. (The Human Economy Series, Eds. Keith Hart and John Sharp).
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2019 “The Magic of Pyramid Firms: Political Cosmologies, Credibility and Collapsed Finance in Albania” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.(In Press)
2018 “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Satire and Intimacies of Anti-corruption.” Current Anthropology. 59 (S18): S105-S116
2017 “Pyramid Firms and Value Transformation in Postsocialist Albania.” Ethnologie Française. No. 2: 321-330.
2011 “Tales from Albarado: The Materiality of Pyramid Schemes in Postsocialist Albania.” Cultural Anthropology. 26(1): 84-110.
Book Chapters
2018 (with Ivan Small) “Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins.” InMoney at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Inclusion and Design.Eds. Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (The Human Economy Series, Eds. Keith Hart and John Sharp)
2018 “Corruption Indicators in the Local Legal/Political Landscape: Reflections from Albania. In The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance by Indicators. Eds. Deborah Valentina Malito, Gaby Umbach, and Nehal Bhuta. Palgrave Macmillan
2015 “Indicators, Global Expertise, and a Local Political Drama: Producing and Deploying Corruption Perception Surveys in Albania.” The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law*.*Eds. Sally Engle Merry, Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, and Benedict Kingsbury. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
2012 “Alternative Publics, Alternative Temporalities: Unofficial Collective Practices in Communist Albania’.” InAlbania: Family, Society and Culture in the 20th Century*.*Eds. Andrea Hemming, Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Papa.LIT Verlag
Editor Reviewed Journal Articles
2016 “Shtëpi Evropjane për një të ardhme më të mirë.” (European Homes for a Better Future.) Përpjekja Vol 34 (1)
2009 “Passport Troubles: Social Tactics and Places of Informal Transactions in Postosocialist Albania.” Anthropology of East Europe Review. 27(2): 157-175
2008 “Pikëpyetje Antropologjike Mbi Korrupsionin.” (Anthropological Questions on Corruption) Polis 6: Korrupsioni në Shqipëri6: 4-14
Book reviews
2017 Book Review of Anthropology and Economyby Stephen Gudeman. Current Anthropology58 (6): 822-823
2014 “Materialities, Politics, and Affects of Socialist and Postsocialist Homes.” Review of Politics in Color and Concrete: Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary. By Krisztina Fehérváry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Current Anthropology.Vol 55(6): 832-833
2002 Review of Elsie, Robert. A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology and Folk Culture. Nationalism and Ethnic PoliticsVol. 8:3