<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Call for contributions to a session on <b>MANUFACTURING DEBT</b> to be held at the 8th European Congress of Community Psychology (York, UK, 15-16 September 2011)</span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div><div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:verdana,
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style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are interested in contributing to this session, please send a 200-word abstract to Serdar M. Degirmencioglu via e-mail at serdardegirmencioglu@gmail.com by November 20, 2010.</div><div><br></div><div>Carl J. Walker &
Serdar M. Degirmencioglu</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br> </div><p><font size="1" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt;">Prof. Dr. Serdar M. Degirmencioglu</span></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"></span></font></p><font size="1" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:8pt;"> </span></p><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:8pt;">YAZISMA ADRESI (Postal address): </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:8pt;" lang="TR">P.K. 18, Goztepe, 34730 Istanbul </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:8pt;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:8pt;">TELEFON (Country code: 90) 533 - 341 3588 (BU NUMARANIN SOMURUSU AVEA
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