Depleted by debt:“Green” microfinance, over‐indebtedness, and social reproduction in climate‐vulnerable Cambodia

V Guermond, D Iskander, S Michiels, K Brickell… - Antipode, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key
means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in …

[HTML][HTML] Slow violence, over-indebtedness, and the politics of (in) visibility: Stories and creative practices in pandemic times

K Brickell - Political Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper I share insights and thoughts on the 'doing'of creative practice for representing
and communicating lived experiences of slow violence. Reflecting on two UKRI GCRF …

Random forest model used to predict the medical out-of-pocket costs of hypertensive patients

N Kumagai, M Jakovljević - Frontiers in Public Health, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Precise prediction of out-of-pocket (OOP) costs to improve health policy design
is important for governments of countries with national health insurance. Controlling the …

Wakeful Geographies, Wakeful Bodies: Day and Nighttime Rhythms of Indebted Life and Capitalist Enclosure in Cambodia

K Brickell, D Iskander, L Parsons… - Annals of the American …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
For a discipline so oriented around the study of wakeful geographies, the lack of direct
conceptual engagement with the notion of wakefulness—a cognitive state in which the mind …

Land Titling and Microcredit in Cambodia: Examining the Reality of Hernando de Soto's 'Three Steps to Heaven'

M Bateman - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
Starting with the work of Hernando de Soto in the 1980s, the role of land tenure soon
attracted the attention of the international development community as a neoliberal-oriented …

Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID‐19 on smallholder farmers' commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia

R Yi, WN Green - Area, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Against a backdrop of agrarian transformation, COVID‐19 intensified translocal precarity
among smallholder farmers worldwide. As scholars of economic geography and agrarian …

Thinking too much

D Iskander, V Guermond, K Brickell - Etnofoor, 2023 - JSTOR
32 tory of growth has continued, culminating in the state of play today. The original poverty-
lending model of mfis has since been abandoned, with most loans now requiring debtors to …

Much effort, little impact: the politics of public microcredit programs in Malawi

R Zidana, B Nkhoma, V Kasulo - Cogent Social Sciences, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper contributes to locating the Malawian dynamics into an emerging discourse that
argues that current microcredit programs are ineffective because they have become an …