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The Personal Life of Debt
Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain1. First Edition
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Verlag: | Bristol University Press |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 01.04.2025 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781529239430 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 224 |
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Beschreibungen
The first full-length ethnography of debt problems in Britain, this book uses long-term fieldwork on a southern English housing estate to challenge stigmatising portrayals of debt and bring new insights to the emerging field of debt studies.
<p>Introduction </p>
<p> Part I. Expressions of debt </p>
<p> Chapter 1. Making debt into an object: the work of debt advisers </p>
<p> Interlude: Economic life in Woldham </p>
<p> Chapter 2. “You can’t argue with them”: debt and the struggle for value </p>
<p> Part II. Prospects of expropriation </p>
<p> Interlude: Debt and the household </p>
<p> Chapter 3. Unsettled homes </p>
<p> Chapter 4. “But I do wish better for my kids” </p>
<p> Chapter 5. The arts of indebted optimism </p>
<p> Conclusion</p>
<p> Part I. Expressions of debt </p>
<p> Chapter 1. Making debt into an object: the work of debt advisers </p>
<p> Interlude: Economic life in Woldham </p>
<p> Chapter 2. “You can’t argue with them”: debt and the struggle for value </p>
<p> Part II. Prospects of expropriation </p>
<p> Interlude: Debt and the household </p>
<p> Chapter 3. Unsettled homes </p>
<p> Chapter 4. “But I do wish better for my kids” </p>
<p> Chapter 5. The arts of indebted optimism </p>
<p> Conclusion</p>
Ryan Davey is Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University.