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SUMMARY:Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (book tal
 k) - Prof Katherine Brickell ( King’s College London) and Dr Mel Nowicki
  (Oxford Brookes University and Visiting Reader in Urban Geography at King
 's College London)
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CONTACT:Dr Laszlo Cseke
DESCRIPTION:Authors: Prof Katherine Brickell ( King’s College London) an
 d Dr Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University and Visiting Reader in Urban G
 eography at King's College London)\n\nDiscussants: Prof Sarah Hall\, Ms Co
 co Huggins and Prof Mia Gray (Department of Geography\, University of Camb
 ridge)\n\nSynopsis\n\nAcross England\, one of the wealthiest yet most uneq
 ual nations in the world\, families are being trapped in debt and homeless
 ness. In this blistering expose\, Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki take 
 the reader inside this national scandal. Hundreds of thousands of children
  are living in "prison-like" hotel rooms and other deadly temporary accomm
 odation for months\, years and sometimes their entire childhood.\n\nDebt T
 rap Nation offers an intimate and politically energised account of a faili
 ng state in technicolour. The decimation of social housing\, an out-of-con
 trol private-rented sector\, austerity\, welfare cuts and a cost-of-living
  crisis has deepened poverty and fed a debt trap that consumes families an
 d is now driving local authorities to bankruptcy. Mothers and their childr
 en have not fallen into this trap\, they have been pulled into it. The per
 sonal and sobering stories recounted here reveal how government choices ha
 ve forced these mothers and survivors of domestic abuse into impossible ha
 rdship.\n\nThe book urges the reader to rail against state-cultivated and 
 politically convenient stigma that equates debt and homelessness with pers
 onal moral failure. It is time to flip the script. It is not women who are
  failing\, women are being failed. 
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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