...Andrew Ross Working simply to pay off debt is an increasingly large component of the time quotient that characterizes our precarious economy. Since debts are the wages of the future, creditors are requiring debtors to tie up their time for decades to come. Just as the struggle over wages...

...Lily Chumley FNM : Capitalist currency is debt. If you look at a dollar, it says as much: “This note is legal tender for all debts public and private.” Equally important, the value of any currency is not intrinsic but created in relation to other infrastructures, including other currencies...

.... Unsanctioned Wealth; or, The Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon Janet Roitman Je lance dans le monde un livre qui va trouver bien des résistences. Eh quoi! vont s’écrier la foule de petits esprits...

.... Microfinance in particular foreshadows the future of finance capital, where trade in debt will require creative practices of converting hyper-risk into profit. These riskscapes are also formations of modernity. It is through encounters with poverty that the modern self is constituted. Such practices of liberal...

... in social thought. This essay foregrounds such a conversation across such varying fields as global prison studies, the history of slavery, and the sociology of debt to provoke a common political project that can extend beyond the limits of the case study. References Agamben Giorgio . 1998...

... as “climate refugees”—running from climate stress. These emigrants and their families, however, rarely mention the weather as a cause of their plight at home or their decisions to leave. They are fleeing abusive policies, exposure to markets, debt peonage, failures of social security systems and a sense...

... reflections that likewise privilege no address. Our topics in this issue range from suppressed minorities to the arts of catastrophe, from public secrets to secret publics, from post-grid sovereignties to viralized sexualities, and from meditations on incalculable costs to reckoning with unpayable debts...

... Morton (eds.), The new pluralism: William Connolly and the contemporary global condition . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Centeno Miguel . 1997 . Blood and debt: War and taxation in nineteenth-century Latin America . American Journal of Sociology 102 , no. 2 : 1565 – 1605...

... similarities and differences between the Jim Crow era and the present in the following areas: debt, activist terrain, the criminal justice system, and the political economy. We look back in our analysis not because we have any great nostalgia for the past but because one aspect of neoliberalism is the drive...

... is intensely interlinked with the debt financing that crashed in 2008. I presume that the “education bubble” is likely to be the next to burst as student debt has now passed $1 trillion, the largest single category of personal debt. By this I...

..., the World Bank, and the Breton Woods agreement to make it a reality. The so-called Third World debt crisis of the early 1980s was the symptomatic result. If global markets in commodity and finance capital were in place...

... as microenterprises in the area were padlocked shut. The microentrepreneurs themselves were often desperate. They had debt over their heads, banks on their backs demanding interest payments and refusing to release further installments of the entrepreneurs...

.... individuals, financial firms, and corporations. 249 Public Culture Figure 1  Normal, flat, and inverted yield curves conditions and the length of the loan. U.S. instruments of debt — bills...

... . . . that migration involving the movement of people from exploited and relatively impoverished parts of the world to countries of relative wealth and privilege is, or at least should be, a right born of debt—an imperial debt. The right to migration, in other words, is a form of reparations” (130). AMIREDIS...

... in the political project of querying and disman- tling the color line, a project that will mean settling the debts accumulated by racial antagonism and oppression? To clarify this, we have to re-pose the question of why desire and affect, as well as the aesthetic notions related to the picturesque...

.... 1989 . “Brazil, Satellites, and Debt: Who Trades What to Acquire New Technologies?” Media Development 36 ( no. 1 ): 6 -9. Miranda , Ricardo , Carlos Alberto, and M. Pereira. 1983 . Televisão: O Nacional E O Popular Na Cultura Brasileira . São Paulo: Brasiliense. Oliveira , Omar...

... are now also perceived as potential victims of a predatory trade in debt. Eager to manage such social and political risk, the leaders of the micro­ finance industry are today experimenting with principles of consumer protection, hoping...

... by Deuda con la Humanidad (Debt with Humanity) and Colombia Nunca Más document and denounce crimes such as forced disappearance, extrajudicial execution, political homicide, and torture. These organizations have provided the names of the victims, the circumstances surrounding the crimes, and those...

... of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Bourgeois , Christine L. 1977. “Debt and Displacement: The Cheetu or Rotating Credit Associations among Tamil Sri Lankan Refugees in Switzerland.” Master's thesis, University of Chicago. Chatterjee , Partha . 1993. The Nation...

... the hour of death was also the hour of judgment and all accumulated sins entered a ledger of debts that would be paid for in the torments of purgatory or in eternal damnation. Paz’s essay on Mexican culture was written at a point in time when...