Environmental Histories of Financialized Landscapes: Indebtedness in Brazilian Periferias
基于巴西累西腓市Peixinhos社区的档案和访谈，从历史与生态视角分析金融化债务如何进入当地信贷循环，导致消费中断和脆弱性加剧，并强调女性负债经验对政策制定的意义。
Based on municipal and state archives, as well as interviews conducted in April and September 2022 with forty-seven pensioners or beneficiaries of social programs in Peixinhos, a neighborhood in the metropolitan region of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, the article proposes a historical and ecological approach to indebtedness that explores how new forms of financialized debt enter local circuits of credit and debt. It shows how financial products that have flooded Brazilian periferias have led to rearrangements in existing dynamics of circulation and redistribution, highlighting how increasing indebtedness has led to a disruption of consumption and high levels of vulnerability. The article argues that an environmental history of financialized landscapes is a step toward the development of evidence-based policies that take into account women’s experience of indebtedness.HIGHLIGHTSStorytelling is a central tool for a feminist reading of debt, which considers historical and ecological dynamics.In Brazilian periferias, debt cycles are tied to seasonal events, such as flooding.Financialized loans coexist with older forms of credit in low-income communities.High indebtedness affects the consumption that cash transfer programs aimed for.Consigned credit has become concerning for women in periferias since payments are deducted from social benefits.