Reimagining the Future of Debt Relief

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This session will explore how scholars continue to reimagine solutions to the problem of debt. Over the past 50 years, household debt has increased dramatically and embedded itself in a wide range of likely and unlikely areas of social and public life, from consumer and student debt to carceral and work-related debt traps. In response to debts growing pervasiveness, several debt relief movements and solutions have emerged. These range from formalizing grassroots lending practices to debt cancellation and abolition. This panel features scholars committed to studying debt and debt relief who will take stock of the progress of these movements and solutions so far and share their visions for the future.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Presider

• Asia Inez Bento, University of California-Irvine

Panelists

• Megan Doherty Bea, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Faith M Deckard, University of California - Los Angeles

• Rachel E. Dwyer, The Ohio State University

• Frederick F. Wherry, Princeton University

Session Organizers

• Asia Inez Bento, University of California-Irvine

• Nina Bandelj, University of California-Irvine