The Sociology of Debt

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-3954-0
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become a serious problem that threatens to destroy the global socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of millions of people. This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.

The contributors to the book consider both the lived experience of debt and the more abstract processes of financialisation taking place globally. Showing how debt functions on the level of both macro- and microeconomics, the book also provides a more holistic perspective, with accounts that span sociological, cultural, and economic forms of analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Featherstone, Mark

Weitere Mitwirkende

Haiven, Max

Gane, Nicholas

Deville, Joe

Walker, Rosie

Dawney, Leila

Kirwan, Samuel

Davis, Mark

Bowsher, Joshua

Bjerg, Ole

Adkins, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: towards a sociology of debt ~ Mark Featherstone

Debt, complexity and the sociological imagination ~ Lisa Adkins

Debt drive and the imperative of growth ~ Ole Bjerg

Memory, counter-memory and resistance: notes on the ‘Greek Debt Truth Commission’ ~ Joshua Bowsher

‘Deferred lives’: money, debt and the financialised futures of young temporary workers ~ Mark Davis and Laura Cartwright

‘Choose your moments’: discipline and speculation in the indebted everyday ~ Samuel Kirwan, Leila Dawney and Rosie Walker

Digital subprime: tracking the credit trackers ~ Joe Deville

Debt, usury and the ongoing crises of capitalism ~ Nicholas Gane

The art of unpayable debts ~ Max Haiven

Ecologies of indebtedness ~ Mark Featherstone

Über Autor(innen)

Featherstone, Mark
Mark Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University. His research specialisms include social theory, critical theory, and psychoanalysis and he has published a number of books and journal articles in these fields. He is currently co-editor of the journal Cultural Politics.

Davis, Mark
Mark Davis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds.

Kirwan, Samuel
Dr. Samuel Kirwan is a Research Associate working on the New Sites of Legal Consciousness Project at the University of Bristol. Dr Kirwan has strong links with Citizens Advice Bureaux across the United Kingdom, with other advice services in the Bristol area, and with Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland. He is a founding member of the Authority Research Network and regularly contributes to the blog at authorityresearch.net/blog. His publications include Space, Power and the Making of the Commons (Routledge, 2015) Advising in Austerity: Reflections on Challenging Times for Advice Agencies (Chapter: Advice on the law but not legal advice so much: weaving law and lief into debt service)

Mark Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University. His research specialisms include social theory, critical theory, and psychoanalysis and he has published a number of books and journal articles in these fields. He is currently co-editor of the journal Cultural Politics.