Following the reading of Susanne Soederberg’s Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry by the Past & Present Reading group in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, the group put together “Ten Questions on Debtfare States”. In this fascinating [...]
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With the news that Susanne Soederberg has been awarded the 2015 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize, we are re-posting this feature on her book. There is also a short trailer on Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry, available [...]
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Furthering the focus on academic trailers, this post features Susanne Soederberg’s Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Distribution and Surplus Population.
The book proposes an original notion to what is called debtfarism to capture new configurations of class-based [...]
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Since the 1990s, a mounting number of people living near or below the poverty line have become increasingly reliant on expensive consumer loans to either replace and/or augment their wages to pay for basic subsistence needs, such as groceries, rent, education, health bills, and so forth. [...]
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