{"id":386,"date":"2010-09-30T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-08-19T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:28:56","slug":"the-politics-of-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Politics of Debt: <\/strong>Concepts and experiences of debt have become central to the management of contemporary capitalism, \u00a0to understandings of its consequences and to social experience at every scale. National debt, personal debt, ecological debt are key issues for understanding contemporary culture and politics. But what exactly is debt? Can we manage without it? Are current levels of personal, national, corporate and ecological debt sustainable; and what are the origins of this most fundamental concept?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>speakers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aditya Chakrabortty<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/series\/new-political-economy\" target=\"_blank\">New Political Economy Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Cox<\/strong>, Campaigns Organiser at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compassonline.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Compass<\/a>, organiser of the Compass campaign against legal loan sharking<\/p>\n<p><strong>Massimo De Angelis<\/strong>, UEL, author of The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital, Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Graeber<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Goldsmiths College<\/a>, author of Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire and Direct Action: an Ethnography, currently working on a history of debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><big><strong>Full Recording Now Available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalstudies.org.uk\/Politics%20of%20Debt.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">HERE <\/a><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of our series of seminars examining the meaning of Debt, Pain and Work in the era of austerity and coalition politics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,25],"tags":[7,26,34,18,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}