The Personal Life of Debt

Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain

Ryan Davey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529239416 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Ryan Davey is Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University.

Inhalt

Introduction


Part I. Expressions of Indebtedness


1. “You can’t argue with them”: debt and the struggle for value


2. Making debt into an object: the work of debt advisers


Part II. Prospects of expropriation


3. Unsettled homes: the interruptible futures and violable spaces of rented housing


Chapter 4. “But I do wish better for my kids”: parental attachment and forced child removal


Chapter 5. The arts of indebted optimism: between fiction and reality


Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2025
• Zusatzinfo: Not illustrated
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• ISBN-13: 9781529239416 / 9781529239416
• Zustand: Neuware