Debt and Financial Scarcity
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Debt as Biopolitics

NIAS Seminar

Maria Kaika, Professor in Urban Regional and Environmental Planning at the University of Amsterdam will hold a seminar on her research project that centers around debt.

Debt as Biopolitics

1) Which changes in actors and socio-cultural practices catalyzed increase in household debt?
2) What is the everyday impact of debt defaults along gendered, racialised and class/social status lines (deterioration in health, community and family relations, homelessness etc)?
3) What are the community family and personal practices developed to curtail debt defaults?

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