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The Personal Life of Debt


The Personal Life of Debt

Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain
1. First Edition

von: Ryan Davey

CHF 41.00

Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 01.04.2025
ISBN/EAN: 9781529239430
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 224

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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>
Ryan Davey is Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University.

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