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Everyday economics of debt w/ Marek Mikuš

Everyday economics of debt w/ Marek Mikuš

Talk On — Debates in Anthropology vor 1 Jahr

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In this episode of Talk On, host Jovan Maud talks to his guest
Marek Mikuš about a topic concerning (almost) everyone: Debt and
how people understand, manage, and live with it. They discuss
Marek Mikuš's work in the Emmy Noether Group "Peripheral Debt",
his research in the field, and how his forthcoming article
"Tracking mortgage pathways in Zaghreb: Everyday economics of
debt, housing wealth and debtors agency in a European
semi-periphery" came to be. In this article, Marek sheds some
light on the financial peculiarities of housing mortgages and how
these peculiarities, i.e. the pegging of the mortgage to the
Swiss currency instead of the Croatian, can work against debtors
and their dream of home ownership. The two talk about debtors'
movements, political and legal battles, and a Croatian couple
struggling to pay their soaring principles but persisting, even
against the hurdles built up by creditors.