Isabelle Guérin

Pascale Absi

Françoise Bourdarias

Le concept de domination constitue l'une des plus hautes crêtes de cristallisation des débats qui animent le champ des sciences sociales et bien au-delà, toutes les réflexions sur la nature des rapports qui font et défont les sociétés. Il continue de donner lieu à de multiples controverses sur le pouvoir, les relations sociales où il prend forme ainsi que les subjectivités et les désirs ambivalents qu'il suscite. Plutôt que de revenir de manière abstraite sur ces débats, ces figures anthropologiques de la domination se proposent d'aborder, depuis des terrains contrastés (en Inde, au Pakistan, en France, au Mali et en Roumanie), les contradictions actuelles de la domination, en faisant une large part à la réflexivité, à l'épistémologie et aux positions en miroir des chercheurs et des acteurs.

Figures anthropologiques de la domination

Le concept de domination constitue l'une des plus hautes crêtes de cristallisation des débats qui animent le champ des sciences sociales et bien au-delà, toutes les réflexions sur la nature des rapports qui font et défont les sociétés. Il continue de donner lieu à de multiples controverses sur le pouvoir, les relations sociales où il prend forme ainsi que les subjectivités et les désirs ambivalents qu'il suscite.0Plutôt que de revenir de manière abstraite sur ces débats, ces figures anthropologiques de la domination se proposent d'aborder, depuis des terrains contrastés (en Inde, au Pakistan, en France, au Mali et en Roumanie), les contradictions actuelles de la domination, en faisant une large part à la réflexivité, à l'épistémologie et aux positions en miroir des chercheurs et des acteurs.

Jean-Michel Servet

Marc Labie

Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries. Is this the end of microcredit or rather an essential step in its expansion? Should we stop microcredit altogether or rethink the way it is implemented? Drawing on extensive empirical research conducted in various parts of the world - from Morocco to Senegal to India - this important volume examines the whole chain of microcredit to provide the answers to these questions. In doing so, the authors highlight the diversity of crises, both in intensity and in nature, while also shedding light on a diversity of causes, be it microcredit organizations unprepared for massive growth, saturated local economies or greedy investors and shareholders attracted by profits. Crucially, the authors demonstrate that microcredit is not a monolithic project, and the crises should also be analysed in the light of national histories and policies. An original and necessary intervention in what has become one of the most contentious topics within the development world.

The Crises of Microcredit

Magdalena Villarreal

Solène Morvant-Roux

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This has brought to light the problem of over-indebtedness, a topic which has been previously underexplored in the literature. This new book, from a group of leading scholars, explores the manifestations, scale, and economic and social implications of household over-indebtedness in areas conventionally considered as financially excluded. The book approaches debt not only as a financial transaction, but also as a form of social bond, and offers a socioeconomic analysis of over-indebtedness. The volume puts forward a broad definition of over-indebtedness, highlighting its situational and semantic complexity and diversity. It provides a close analysis of local conceptions of debt and over-indebtedness, highlighting frameworks of calculation and the constant renegotiation of their boundaries. On top of this, it looks far beyond microcredit to examine all the financial practices that individuals juggle. The volume argues that over-indebtedness has more to do with social inequalities than financial illiteracy, and should therefore be understood in the light of global trends of financialization. It also reveals the ambiguity of "financial inclusion" policies, and in many respects questions the actions of new credit providers. This book will be valuable reading for students, researchers and policy makers interested in microfinance and development issues.

Isabelle Guérin

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