Compassion and Virtue: Social media-enabled bartering in Fiji during COVID-19

Autor: Suliasi Vunibola, Romitesh Kant, Heather A. Horst, Glenn Finau, Geir Henning Presterudstuen, Jason Titifanue
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Issues Journal. 4
Popis: This essay explores the emergence of the BFBF and how this online group made ‘bartering’ and other practices of exchange central to surviving Covid-19. We analyse the posts and discussions of BFBF participants in 2020. We are interested in the way moderators and participants position this contemporary way of conducting bartering as an alternative to market trade that has deep cultural roots in Fiji. Such forms of exchange have serious implications for the study of digital practices and relational systems of exchange in Fiji and beyond.
Databáze: OpenAIRE