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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Civic Engagement

2021
WHYY is a PBS-affiliate serving the Philadelphia-Delaware Valley. WHYY implemented a large scale rebranding strategy moving from a public television licensee to being known as a civic space. The concept of "civic space" can be defined as a location, literal or technological - where the community can go to communicate and become informed on matters of ...
Alex C. Gang, Eunah Jo
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Civic Engagement

2022
Abstract Abstract: The chapter focuses specifically on civic engagement as a distinct mode of political activity among citizens in contemporary democracies. In the first section, we review existing definitions of “civic engagement” in the literature, noting in particular the lack of common notions of what it entails, as well as the ...
Joakim Ekman, Erik Amnå
openaire   +2 more sources

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