The expansive and intricate world of global finance holds immense significance for socio-economic processes worldwide, influencing everything from daily payments to geopolitics. Despite mainly operating behind the scenes, financial infrastructures have garnered attention in both public discourse and academic circles due to their growing politicization. This introduction to a forthcoming handbook outlines the thread uniting all contributions to this volume: the infrastructural gazing heuristic that all contributors take in foregrounding the political stakes of what are typically backgrounded, merely technical processes and actors underpinning global finance.
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