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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.

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Author:   Max Haiven (Lakehead University) ,  Nicholas Gane (University of Warwick) ,  Joe Deville (Lancaster University) ,  Rosie Walker
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447339540

ISBN 10:   1447339541
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   16 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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