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From debt to over-indebtedness in southern countries: Processes, practices and meanings
International Workshop, Paris-IEDES, 7-8 december 09
Published on Friday, November 27, 2009
Abstract
Announcement
Programme
7 Décembre 2009
9h15- 9h30
Accueil des participants : Why should we talk about debt and overindebtedness?
Isabelle Guérin (UMR 201), Solène Morvant‐Roux (UMR 201), Magdalena Villarreal (CIESAS)
9h 30‐10h45: Session 1.
Debt : accumulation versus impoverishment
- Credit, finance and contractual synchrony in a south‐Indian market town, Barbara Harriss‐White, Oxford University, UK
- Fair Interest Rates when Lending to the Poor, Marek Hudon, ULB‐Cermi, Belgique
10h 45‐11h00 Pause café/ Coffee break
11h00-12h45: Session 2.
The social meaning of debt and over-indebtedness and the role of microfinance
- Debt, over‐indebtedness and wellbeing: an exploration, Susan Johnson, Bath University
- Debt, impoverishment and misery in rural South‐India, Isabelle Guérin, UMR 201, France
12h45 - 14h00 : Déjeuner/Lunch
14h00 – 18h15 Session 3.
Financial crisis and financial vulnerability: Insufficient economic growth, social exclusion and indebtedness dynamics
- Jean‐Michel Servet, IHEID, Suisse
- Indebted Mexicans in the Californian Mortgage Crisis, Magdalena Villarreal, Ciesas, Mexique
15h30 Pause café/ Coffee break
- Class, Caste and Pay Gaps: An Analysis of the Working‐Class Roots of Overindebtedness, Wendy Olsen, Manchester University, UK
- The dynamics of financial vulnerability. Lessons from India, Marc Roesch, CIRAD - IFP, France
8 Décembre 2009
9h00 12h30: Session 4.
The ambiguity of debt: from protection to exploitation
- From gift to debt: the logic of credit in Early Modern Europe, Laurence Fontaine, EHESS, France
- Redefining Time in Changing Debt‐Bondage Relationships: Discourses and Practices of Labourers in Telangana, South India, David Picherit, UMR 201, France
10h30‐10h45 Pause café/ coffee break
- The Multiplication of Dependency: Mexican examples for a qualitative definition of “over‐indebtedness”, Francesco Zanotelli – Università degli Studi di Siena, Italie
- The collective dimension of debt: evidence from rural Mexico, Solène Morvant‐Roux, UMR 201, France
12h30‐13h30 Pause déjeuner/ lunch
13h30- 17h30 Session 5:
The double side of microfinance
- Social Class and Debt Levels 1995‐2006 in Rural South India, Daniel Neff, University of Manheim, Allemagne and Wendy Olsen, Manchester University, UK
- Crisis, microfinance, overindebtedness and social costs for women. A Mexican case study, Lourdes Angulo, CIESAS, Mexique
15h00‐15h15 Pause café/ Coffee break
- Debt dynamics in an indigenous community in Mexico. An anthropological perspective, Agata Hummel, Varsovia University, Pologne
- Does juggling mean struggling ? Insights into the diversity and complexity of rural households financial practices in Madagascar, Betty Wampfler, Supagro, Montpellier
Subjects
- Sociology (Main category)
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology > Social anthropology
- Zones and regions > America > Latin America > Mexico and Central America
- Society > Economics > Economic development
- Society > Economics > Labour, employment
- Zones and regions > Africa > Sub-Saharan Africa > Southern Africa
- Zones and regions > Asia > Indian world
- Society > Sociology > Economic sociology
Places
- IEDES, 45 bis, avenue de la Belle Gabrielle
Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Date(s)
- Monday, December 07, 2009
- Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Keywords
- debt, microfinance, poor, labour, credit, India, Mexico, Madagascar, bondage, migration
Contact(s)
- Isabelle Guérin
courriel : isabelle [dot] guerin [at] ird [dot] fr - Solène Morvant?Roux ~
courriel : solene [dot] morvant [at] gmail [dot] com
Reference Urls
Information source
- David Picherit
courriel : bourse [dot] fleischmann [at] societe-ethnologie [dot] fr
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« From debt to over-indebtedness in southern countries: Processes, practices and meanings », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Friday, November 27, 2009, https://calenda.org/199666