The sociology of debt / edited by Mark Featherstone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Featherstone, Mark, editor.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debt--Social aspects.

Debt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2019.

Summary:

Key thinkers with a range of perspectives provide a sociological analysis of debt focused upon its social, political, economic, and cultural meanings. Contributors consider the lived experience of debt and financialisation taking place globally with accounts that span sociological, cultural, and economic forms of analysis.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: towards a sociology of debt

Debt, complexity and the sociological imagination

Debt drive and the imperative of growth

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

‘Deferred lives’: money, debt and the financialised futures of young temporary workers

‘Choose your moments’: discipline and speculation in the indebted everyday

Digital subprime: tracking the credit trackers

Debt, usury and the ongoing crises of capitalism

The art of unpayable debts

Ecologies of indebtedness

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-3957-6

1-4473-3955-X

1-4473-3953-3

OCLC:

1280926989