Books
Single Authored Book
Smoki Musaraj, 2020. Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Edited Volumes
Nataša Gregorič Bon and Smoki Musaraj, eds. 2021. Remitting, Building, and Restoring Contemporary Albania. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small, 2018. Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Inclusion and Design. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Musaraj, Smoki, 2023. "Housing as Asset and Payment: Construction, Speculation, and Financialization at the European Periphery(opens in a new window)." American Anthropologist, 125(4), pp.865-879.
Musaraj, Smoki. 2019. “The Magic of Pyramid Firms: Political Cosmologies, Credibility and Collapsed Finance” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 84(2): 179-200.
Musaraj, Smoki. 2018 “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Satire and Intimacies of Anti-corruption.” Current Anthropology. 59 (S18): S105-S116.
Musaraj, Smoki, 2017 “Pyramid Firms and Value Transformation in Postsocialist Albania.” Ethnologie Française. Vol 2: 321-330.
Musaraj, Smoki, 2011 “Tales from Albarado: The Materiality of Pyramid Schemes in Postsocialist Albania.” Cultural Anthropology. 26(1): 84-110. See also Supplementary Material.
Editor-reviewed Articles
Matthew Canfield and Smoki Musaraj, 2024. “Book Review Editorial: Recent Contributions in Political and Legal Anthropology.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 2024: 1-6.
Smoki Musaraj and Matthew Canfield, 2022. “Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 45 (2): 304-310.
Musaraj, Smoki, 2016. “Shtëpi Evropjane për një të ardhme më të mirë.” (European Homes for a Better Future.) Përpjekja Vol 34 (1)
Musaraj, Smoki, 2009. “Passport Troubles: Social Tactics and Places of Informal Transactions in Postosocialist Albania.” Anthropology of East Europe Review. 27(2): 157-175
Musaraj, Smoki, 2008. “Pikëpyetje Antropologjike Mbi Korrupsionin.” (Anthropological Questions on Corruption) Polis 6: Korrupsioni në Shqipëri (Corruption in Albania) European Univ. of Tirana. 6
Book Chapters
Smoki Musaraj, 2025. “Reclaiming the Mediterranean City: Contesting the Legitimacy of Urban Renewal Projects and the Airbnb Economy in Marseille.” In Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volume Two. Eds. Italo Pardo and Giuliana Prato. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Matthew Rosen and Smoki Musaraj, 2022. “Tirana Visible and Invisible.” In Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination(opens in a new window). Edited by Benjamin Linder. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan.
Smoki Musaraj, 2021. "Temporalities of Concrete in a Postcommunist City." In Remitting, Building, and Restoring the Contemporary Albania(opens in a new window). Palgrave Macmillan.
Smoki Musaraj and Nataša Gregoriç Bon, 2021. “Introduction: Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania.” In Remitting, Building, and Restoring the Contemporary Albania. Palgrave Macmillan.
Musaraj, Smoki and Ivan Small, 2018. "Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins.: In Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Inclusion and Design. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. pp. 1-18.
Musaraj, Smoki, 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.
Musaraj, Smoki, 2015 “Indicators, Global Expertise, and a Local Political Drama: Producing and Deploying Corruption Perception Surveys in Albania.” In The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Development, Corruption, and Rule of Law. Edited by Sally Engle Merry, Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, and Benedict Kingsbury. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Musaraj, Smoki, 2012 “Alternative Publics, Alternative Temporalities: Unofficial Collective Practices in Communist Albania.” In Albania: Family, Society and Culture in the 20th Century. Eds. Andrea Hemming, Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Papa. LIT Verlag.