Precarious Debt: Microfinance Subjects and Intergenerational Dependency in Cambodia

• Published in: Antipode Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 129 - 147
• Main Authors: Green, W. Nathan, Estes, Jennifer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Butler, Judith; Cambodia; Debt; Dependency; Economic conditions; Ethnographic research; Ethnography; families; Family relations; Finance; Households; Insecure; intergenerational relations; Labor market; Labor migration; Markets; Microfinance; Politics; Rural areas; Rural communities; Social relations; Subjectivity; Cambodia

This paper tells a story of debt within a rural Cambodian family in order to understand how microfinance produces more‐than‐individual financial subjects that are entangled in changing social relations of dependency. We draw upon 20 months of joint ethnographic research in Cambodia, where the microf...