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\u201cWhile public debt is often discussed in the public arena, household debt, as it’s known, is rarely discussed.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Jean Fran\u00e7ois Bissonnette<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

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In collaboration with CIRCEM and AISLF, Jurivision presents a series of interviews conducted as part of the XXII\u1d49 Congr\u00e8s international des sociologues de langue fran\u00e7aise<\/em><\/a>. Entitled \u201cSciences, Savoirs et Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s\u201d, the Congress brought together over a thousand francophone and francophile scientists at the University of Ottawa in July 2024.<\/p>\n\n

In this visual post, Professor Jean Fran\u00e7ois Bissonnette recounts how the 2012 Quebec student strike led him to take an interest in the phenomenon of debt. He explains the growth of private debt in Canada and how it has become commonplace. He examines debt as a power relationship and an economic, social and political phenomenon. He emphasizes that money is a deeply ambivalent institution. <\/p>\n\n

Jean Fran\u00e7ois Bissonnette talks about his research projects and French-language sociology in the episode Sciences, savoirs et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s (Part 4) : Sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9 dela sociologie canadienne francophone<\/em><\/a> of the CIRCEM podcasts.<\/p>\n\n

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Canadian household debt has risen sharply in recent decades. In this visual post, Professor Jean Fran\u00e7ois Bissonnette recounts how the 2012 Quebec student strike led him to take an interest in the phenomenon of debt. He explains the growth of private debt and how it has become commonplace. He examines debt as a power relationship and an economic, social and political phenomenon. He emphasizes that money is a deeply ambivalent institution. An interview conducted by Jurivision in collaboration with CIRCEM as part of the XXII\u1d49 AISLF Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":104901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[314,316],"class_list":["post-104909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","tag-aislf-en","tag-sociology"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"JuriKnowledge"}],"post_tag":[{"value":314,"label":"AISLF"},{"value":316,"label":"Sociology"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jf-bssonnette-horizontal-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Patrick Walton","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/patrick\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"JuriKnowledge","slug":"knowledge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":27,"category_count":80,"category_description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","cat_name":"JuriKnowledge","category_nicename":"knowledge","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":314,"name":"AISLF","slug":"aislf-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":314,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":316,"name":"Sociology","slug":"sociology","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":316,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}