1. Significados múltiples y contradictorios del sobreendeudamiento. Un estudio de caso de hogares en pobreza rural en Tamil Nadu, sur de la India*
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Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Santosh Kumar, Isabelle Guérin, Marc Roesch, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Nouvelle-Calédonie]), Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP), and Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Identity ,Power ,050204 development studies ,0502 economics and business ,05 social sciences ,Over-indebtedness ,1. No poverty ,050602 political science & public administration ,India ,10. No inequality ,Debt ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,0506 political science - Abstract
International audience; Multiple and Conflicting Meanings of Households’ Over-Indebtedness. A Study Case of poor Rural South Indian Households in tamil NaduBased on a study case in rural South-India, this paper argues that over-indebtedness as a definition cannot be restricted to processes of material impoverishment, but the consequences of debt for social status also matters: borrowers value and rank debts according to losses and gains of self-respect and dignity. The social meaning of debt depends upon pre-existing relationships between debtors and creditors, and debt in turn strengthens, preserves and sometime challenges pre-existing positions within local hierarchies.
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- 2014