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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Tim DiMuzio (University of Wollongong), 'Debt as a Technology of Power'
This is the first seminar in the Semester 2 series of 2015 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date and Location:
6 August 2015, Darlington Centre Boardroom, [...]
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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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When Greeks voted last Sunday a SYRIZA victory was all but assured given the party’s consistent lead in the polls and a strange quirk of the Greek electoral system that gifts 50 ‘bonus seats’ to the party with the highest vote. With 36.34% SYRIZA topped the poll followed by centre-right New [...]
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