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 Albani a(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.