Podcast with Serena Natile
In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, I speak to Serena Natile to discuss her book, ‘The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: mobile money, gendered walls’, in which she uses the example of Kenya’s extremely popular mPesa programme to critique mobile money more generally as part of a historical succession of finance solutionism. Serena proposes an alternative strategy for gender equality in the form of a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects…