News Archive
A new interdisciplinary state-of-the-art and theory article on the financialization of households co-authored by Marek Mikuš, sociologist Alicja Bobek (Technological University Dublin) and economic geographer Martin Sokol (Trinity College Dublin) was ...
Peripheral Debt warmly invites everybody interested in anthropological research on household debt to attend a hybrid seminar by our two Visiting Scholars Jitka Králová and Judit Durst on 13 June 2023.
On 2 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:30 CET , join the online launch of a new special issue of Critique of Anthropology - ‘Engineering the Middle Classes: State Institutions and the Aspirations of Citizenship’ – guest edited by Maxim Bolt (Oxford ...
Marek Mikuš's article 'New' but 'Squeezed': Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia was just published as part of the special issue of Critique of Anthropology 'Engineering the Middle Classes: State Institutions and the Aspirations of ...
Ethnographies of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Deservingness
Marek Mikuš's chapter entitled "Victims, patriots and middle class: the (un)deservingness of debtors in post-credit boom Croatia" was just published as part of the collection Ethnographies of deservingness: unpacking ideologies of distribution and ...
Marek Mikuš has co-edited and co-authored the introduction (with Agnes Gagyi) for the new special issue of Critical Housing Analysis.
We're inviting paper abstracts for the special session "Infrastructures of finance and finance as infrastructure in Eastern Europe" at the 2022 Regional Studies Association Central and Eastern Europe Conference, which will take place in Leipzig on ...
On 30 September 2021, Marek Mikuš delivered a presentation entitled "The flip side of debt: mortgaged housing as assets in Zagreb" in the panel "Economy as Atmosphere", which was part of the DGSKA 2021 conference.
Online Talk by Agnes Gagyi during her research visit at the MPI for Social Anthropology
On 23 June 2021, Marek Mikuš presented a paper entitled 'Middle class on credit: class formation, housing policy and financialization in Croatia' in the panel 'Between governance and resistance: coping with financial precarity and ...
A collection of chapters co-edited by Marek Mikuš and Petra Rodik, has been published in Routledge's RIPE Series in Global Political Economy.
On Friday 21 May, 12-14 pm CET, Marek Mikuš has participated in the panel 'Economic Growth and Debt in Central and Eastern Europe". The panel was part of the online conference "Thirty Years of Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe ...
On 15 April 2021, Marek Mikuš participated in an online event entitled "Funding Free Debt Advice in South Africa: Learning from 3 Countries" organized by the South African human rights organization Black Sash. The event was focused a presentation and ...
The Oxford Research of Encyclopedia has published Marek Mikuš's article on the anthropology of financialization in Eastern Europe. The article is fully open access.
On 1 October 2020, PhD students Mathias Krabbe and Balázs Gosztonyi joined Peripheral Debt. More information on their research interests and past work can be found in the section People.
Marek Mikuš's chapter about the practices and politics of debt collection and debt enforcement in Croatia, entitled "Making Debt Work: Devising and Debating Debt Collection in Croatia", was recently published as part of the edited collection ...
Marek Mikuš's fourth and final working paper for GEOFIN (Western Banks in Eastern Europe: New Geographies of Financialisation), an ERC-funded research project on which he previously collaborated, has just been published. The paper entitled ...
Marek Mikuš has contributed to the new working paper of the Periféria Policy and Research Centre entitled Household Debt on the Peripheries of Europe: New Constellations since 2008. The extensive and open-source working paper, intended primarily for ...
'Peripheral Debt' is now inviting applications for two PhD positions. The PhD students will be expected to develop dissertations on household debt in Hungary and Poland, respectively. The deadline for applying has been extended to 15 June 2020. For ...
Dr. Marek Mikuš and Dr. Irene Sabaté are inviting paper proposals for their panel ‘Contesting Household Debt: Politics, Infrapolitics, and the Political Economy of Debtor-Creditor Relations’ at the IUAES2020 Congress in Šibenik, Croatia on 7-11 ...
On 15-16 February 2020, Marek Mikuš will participate in the workshop "Foreign-Currency Housing Loans in Eastern Europe: Crises, Tensions and Struggles" that he is co-organizing with Ágnes Gagyi and Petra Rodik at the Faculty of Humanities and Social ...
On 6 December 2019, Marek Mikuš will present an outline of the Peripheral Debt research project at the 3rd International Scientific Conference "Financialization and Society" in Rzeszów, Poland. His talk will be part of Session B ("Impact Mechanisms ...
Together with his co-editor Petra Rodik, Marek Mikuš recently signed a publication contract for an edited collection with the working title Households and Financialization in Europe's Peripheries, to be published in Routledge's RIPE Series in Global ...
On 1 October 2019 Marek Mikuš started his position as head of an Emmy Noether Research Group at the MPI for Social Anthropology. The project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is titled “Peripheral Debt: Money, Risk and ...