Routledge Handbook on Debt

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About the editors

List of contributors

Introduction

Isabelle Guérin, Deborah James, Federico Neiburg, Horacio Ortiz, Ndongo Sylla

1             Perspectives

1.1 Debt and Patriarchy                                    

Isabelle Guerin

1.2 Debt and Race                                                                   

Matthew Robinson

1.3 Debt and Class                                                       

Johnna Montgomerie

1.4 Debt in Critical Accounting                        

Christine Gilbert

1.5 Debt in Sociology                                                                           

Jeanne Lazarus            

1.6 Debt in Anthropology                                                                                             

Gustav Peebles            

1.7 Debt in Economics                                                             

Dirk Ehnts

2             Interpersonal Relations

2.1 Debt and Violence                                                                                                  

Timothée Narring and Gabriel Feltran

2.2 Trade, Family and Debt                                                                  

Juliane Müller

2.3 Debt, Migration, and Hope                                                  

Magdalena Villareal

2.4 Debts, Gifts and the Opacities of Everyday Life                                            

Clara Han

2.5 Household, Future-making and Debt                        

Caitlin Zaloom and Deborah James                  

2.6 Rotating Credit Associations and Debt                     

Daivi Rodima-Taylor

3             Banking

3.1 Making the Mortgagor Nation                                 

Marek Mikuš

3.2 Debt and the (im)Morality of Financialization          

Solène Morvant Roux and Malcolm Rees

3.3 Dual Credit Systems and Financial Inequality                     

Adrienne Sala

3.4 Compressing Development and Extending the Banks

Xiaoting Lu and Yingyao Wang

3.5 The Credit Nexus                                                   

Bruce Carruthers

3.6 Small Creditors, Large Debtors                               

Susana Narotzky

 4             Organisations and Institutions

4.1 The New Politics of Middle-class Indebtedness        

Louis O’Sullivan and Lena Rethel

4.2  Debt Management and Social Policy in the Age of Financialization              

Lena Lavinas and Bruno Mader

4.3 Digital Lending                                                      

Nicolas Lainez

4.4 Sovereign and Social Debts                           

Bruno Theret

4.5 Economic Reparation Through the Lens of Debt    

Mariana Luzzi

4.6 How Debts Shape Democratic Experience                

Ariel Wilkis and Florencia Labiano

4.7 The Long History of Debt Imprisonment                 

Wendy Warren

5             Global Relations

5.1 Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Reparations 
Bethânia Pereira and Rodrigo C. Bulamah

5.2 Subprime Empire and the Histories of in-Between Finance   

Sohini Kar and Caroline E. Schuster

5.3 Weaponizing Debt                                                                          

Mona Ali

5.4 Debt and Rural Agrarian Economies                        

Sarah Sippel

5.5 Bonded Sovereignties                                                                     

Benjamin Lemoine

 6             Politicizing Debt

 6.1 A Feminist Reading of Debt                        

Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero, and Celeste Perosino

Translated by Liz Mason Deese

6.2 Fighting Illegitimate Debts                                      

Maxime Perriot and Éric Toussaint       

6.3 The Ecological Debt                                               

Joan Martinez-Alier

6.4 Decommodification of Debt                        

Leonardo Leal, Ruth Muñoz and Genauto Carvalho de França Filho

Index

Biography

Isabelle Guérin is Senior Research Fellow at IRD (French National Research Institute on Sustainable Development), affiliated at Cessma (Social Science Center Studies in African, American and Asian Worlds, Université Paris CIté/IRD/Inalco).

Deborah James is a professor at LSE (London School of Economics). She is an anthropologist of economy, exploring indebtedness and advice in particular, and her research is focused on South Africa and, more recently, the UK.

Federico Neiburg is professor of anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he is also the founder of the Research Group on Culture and Economy (NuCEC).

Horacio Ortiz is associate professor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, China and senior researcher at Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, IRISSO, UMR 7170, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Ndongo Samba Sylla (PhD) is a Senegalese Development Economist. He is currently the Dakar-based Research and Policy Director for Africa of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), an organization that brings together economists from the Global South.