Debt Community Network

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Examples of Existing Campaigns

  Poster: Jubilee Debt Campaign This poster outlines the overarching demands of the Jubilee Debt campaign including 1) debt cancellation (of unjust/illegitimate debt); 2) control lending and capital flows (regulate finance!!) and: 3) tax justice.  The suggestions to bring this change about include: solidarity with debt activists in developing countries, awareness raising in the UK, […]

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The Power of Debt

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The Politics of Personal Debt

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Poster: Politics of Debt

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Knowledge exchange posters

Posters Throughout the day participants made posters and commented on those made by others. From the very beginning it was clear that there was a high degree of technical and expert knowledge in the room and using posters provided a visual way of representations of the key issues and topics the formed out agenda for the day. […]

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Poster: Borrower as Consumer—standards and practice

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The UK’s everyday debt economy

Continuing dependence on debt highlights the great ‘strategic silence’ at the heart of the contemporary political economy of the UK. Household debt is the strategic silence in contemporary policy debates about the state of the UK economy. We know that households across the income and socio-economic spectrum are dependent on debt: in 2014, households with […]

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Digital technologies of debt resilience: everyday life and citizenship in the Age of Austerity

Executive summary Digital Technologies of Debt Resilience is a pilot study into the everyday politics of indebtedness in Britain. One element engages directly with political actors seeking change to some aspect of the political economy of retail credit or personal debt; the other element looks directly with the indebted and how they use peer-to-peer information […]

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Johnna Montgomerie and Carl Packman on Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed

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Personal debt is set to boom in 2015 – communities must change tack

Debt has been very high on the news agenda recently. Greece for example: a country plagued by debt, which decided in early days that rather than taking the default route would take on new loans from German, French and other creditors in return for harsh and predictably ineffective austerity measures, and which has this week […]

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The question debtors are increasingly asking: do I have to repay?

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‘Everyday debt and credit’ Special Issue