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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.

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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

The Sociology of Debt

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 16 December 2020
      ISBN-13 9781447339540
      978-1447339540
      ISBN-10 1447339541
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      Economic theory and philosophy Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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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