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Hannah Appel

Hannah Appel is associate professor of anthropology at UCLA. She is also associate director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, where she leads the Future of Finance research stream. A participant in Occupy Wall Street, she went on to conspire with comrades to found the Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtors union. Find out more @strikedebt, @ChallengeIneq, and @ucftp. icon

Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds

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“What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”

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