Are the logics of the market and the state mirror-images of each other? What is the relationship between free markets and capitalism, historically and in the current period?.How do social and religious movements emerge and transform in response to issues of debt, exploitation and monetary circulation? What are the historical successes of such movements in addressing ‘the social dislocations introduced by debt’?.‘How did we come to see all morality as debt?’ Which people and what ranges of experience have been made to disappear from accounts of ‘the economy’ in mainstream economics, history and social science? How does this distort our view of the past and present and limit our imaginations about future possibilities?.Questions to be tackled include, but are not restricted to: We invite paper proposals from scholars working on ‘debt’ within (and beyond) the disciplines of history, anthropology and other social sciences. How could we help to stimulate this conversation through our own work on debt across time and space? A public conversation that seemed to be opening up at the start of the global financial crisis but ‘never ended up taking place’ is still desperately needed. We will consider what is at stake in the current moment as well as general tendencies, dynamics and lived experiences of previous cycles of credit and physical money. The goal of our conference is to pick up this challenge. Where the study of debt and money has often been confined to ‘economic history’ or technical specialisations such as numismatics, Graeber demands that we move beyond a narrow economism to ‘ask fundamental questions about what human beings and human society are or could be like’. Add to my calendar Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures, University of Birmingham 8–9 June, 2018ĭavid Graeber’s book Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011) challenges historians, anthropologists and other social scientists to analyse the relationship between debt, money and human society on the broadest historical and geographical scales.
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