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Life and debt: A view from the south
Economy and Society ( IF 4.182 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-05
Deborah James

Abstract

This paper explores how, in countries in the global south where sharp rises in indebtedness have accompanied the financialization of the economy, debt factors into other relationships and meanings in the life of the family and household. Using ethnographic material from South Africa, it explores local concepts of householding, obligation and saving (asking whether relations of commodified debt nullify those of longstanding social commitment), investigates how people convert between cash-based or short-term imperatives and moral or longer-term ones, and shows how barriers are sometimes erected between these separate spheres thus making them incommensurable. The paper challenges some accounts of the ‘financialization of daily life’ which imply a one-way, top-down intrusion by the market – with state backing – into people’s intimate relations, commitments and aspirations, and maintains that we need to explore the complicity of participants’ engagement with these processes rather than seeing them as imposed on unwilling victims.



中文翻译:

生活与债务:从南方看

摘要

本文探讨了在债务急剧上升伴随着经济金融化的全球南方国家中,债务因素如何融入家庭和家庭生活中的其他关系和意义。它使用来自南非的人种志资料,探索了本地化的住户,义务和储蓄概念(询问商品债务关系是否使长期社会承诺的关系无效),研究了人们如何在现金或短期义务与道德或长期义务之间进行转换。术语,并说明有时如何在这些单独的领域之间建立障碍,从而使它们无法估量。该论文挑战了“日常生活的金融化”的某些说法,这意味着市场在国家的支持下单方面,自上而下地侵入了人们的亲密关系,

更新日期:2021-02-05
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