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I am a social anthropologist and researcher at the African Studies Center of the Pardee School of Global Studies of Boston University. My research focuses on informal economies, financial technology and social media platforms, migration and diaspora, and land and agrarian relations. My longitudinal field research in East Africa studied local associations of mutual security, such as cooperative work and savings groups, and informal courts and militias. My doctorate degree is from Brandeis University.

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  1. Article
    Beyond Technology: The Uneven Path Toward Cheaper Digital Remittances
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  2. Article
    Land, Finance, Technology: Perspectives on Mortgage Lending
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  3. Article
    Hybrid Materialities, Power, and Expertise in the Era of General Purpose Technologies
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  4. Article
    Repoliticizing the technological turn in sustainability governance: Moralities, power, space.
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  5. Article
    Grassroots Data Activism and Polycentric Governance
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  6. Article
    The Cryptopolitics of Digital Mutuality: WhatsApp Savings Groups in Africa
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  7. Article
    Ajami Literacies of West Africa
    Fallou NgomDaivi Rodima-Taylor
  8. Article
    Reimagining blockchain in a pluriversal world: Digital land in the Global South and the metaverse
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  9. Article
    Nine Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia. Book review.
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  10. Article
    Land, Finance, Technology: Perspectives on Mortgage Lending
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  11. Article
    Reinventing Land Mortgage in Postsocialist Europe: The Romanian Case
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  12. Article
    Gathering Up Mutual Help: Work, Personhood, and Relational Freedoms in Tanzania and Melanesia
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  13. Article
    The veil of transparency: Blockchain and sustainability governance in global supply chains
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  14. Article
    FinTech in Africa
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  15. Article
    FinTech Platforms and Mutual Help in Africa
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  16. Article
    Sending Money Home in Conflict Settings: Revisiting Migrant Remittances
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  17. Article
    Digitalizing land administration: Exploring an infrastructural promise
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  18. Article
    Promise, Ethnography, and the Anthropocene: Investigating the Infrastructural Turn
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  19. Article
    Interrogating Technology‐led Experiments in Sustainability Governance
    Dr. Laura MahrenbachDaivi Rodima-Taylor
  20. Article
    Remittance infrastructures, embeddedness, innovation and inclusion
    William GrimesDaivi Rodima-Taylor
  21. Article
    Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff. Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. 320 pp.Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design. Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Iv...
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  22. Article
    Introduction: Questioning Boundaries and Belonging
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  23. Article
    Introduction: Mutual Help in an Era of Uncertainty
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  24. Article
    Passageways of Cooperation: Mutuality in Post-Socialist Tanzania
    Daivi Rodima-Taylor