The Personal Life of Debt

Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain

Ryan Davey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529239423 (ISBN)

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As the cost of living rises, British households face unprecedented levels of debt. But many commentators characterise those who stash away envelopes, leave telephones ringing, or hide from debt collectors as irresponsible.

The first full-length ethnography of debt problems in Britain, this book uses long-term fieldwork on a southern English housing estate to give a sensitive retelling of the everyday lives of indebted people.

It argues that the inequalities of debt go beyond economic questions to include the way state coercion hinders people’s efforts to define what they truly value. Indeed, from finance to housing and even parenthood, the potential for dispossession has become a pervasive method of power that strikes at the heart of personal life.

Ryan Davey is Lecturer in Social Sciences at Cardiff University, working across anthropology and sociology.

Introduction

Interlude 1: Economic Life and Social Distinction in Woldham

Part I. Expressions of Indebtedness

1. ‘You Can’t Argue with Them’: Debt and the Struggle over Value

2. Making Debt into an Object: The Work of Debt Advisers

Interlude 2: Debt and the Household

Part II. Prospects of Expropriation

3. Unsettled Homes: The Interruptible Futures and Violable Spaces of Rented Housing

4. ‘But I Do Wish Better for My Kids’: Parental Attachment and Forced Child Removal

5. The Arts of Indebted Optimism: Between Fiction and Reality

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	23.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-13	9781529239423 / 9781529239423
Zustand	Neuware