[Commpsych] Call for contributions - Session on manufacturing debt (8th ECCP, York, Sep 2011)

[Serdar M. Degirmencioglu]

Call for contributions to a session on MANUFACTURING DEBT to be held at the 8th 
European Congress of Community Psychology (York, UK, 15-16 September 2011)



In recent years there has been a considerable increase in levels of  personal 
debt and over-indebtedness. Indebtedness may take  several forms (such as loans, 
credit card debt, mortgage arrears, etc.) but regardless of form and process, it 
is facilitated, endorsed and imposed through the actions of finance companies in 
conjunction with regulatory and  statutory modes of authority. Depending on how 
loose regulations are, the debt industry strives continuously to pull people 
into debt.

The increase in personal debt is not distributed uniformly in  the society: It 
is largely concentrated in households with low incomes. The dominant discourse 
on indebtedness invariably assumes that individuals are free to make economic 
decisions and personal debt is a problem of individual financial incompetence.

It is fair to say that the contribution of psychologists to an understanding of 
the processes that underlie indebtedness, poverty and subjective suffering has 
been at best negligible and at worst toxic.

We are interested in putting together a session that would shed light on 
indebtedness, the way debt is manufactured and the ways in which psychologists 
can critically engage with the manufacturing of debt.

If you are interested in contributing to this session, please send a 200-word 
abstract to Serdar M. Degirmencioglu via e-mail at 
serdardegirmencioglu at gmail.com by November 20, 2010.

Carl J. Walker &  Serdar M. Degirmencioglu





 
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