The Sociology of Debt

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Edited by Mark Featherstone, Keele University

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: April 2022
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781447339533
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447339533

Subjects:: Social Theory, Sociology

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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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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

Notes on contributors
pp iv-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction: towards a sociology of debt
pp 1-26

1 - Debt, complexity and the sociological imagination
pp 27-48

2 - Debt drive and the imperative of growth
pp 49-68

3 - Memory, counter-memory and resistance: notes on the ‘Greek Debt Truth Commission’
pp 69-90

4 - ‘Deferred lives’: money, debt and the financialised futures of young temporary workers
pp 91-118

5 - ‘Choose your moments’: discipline and speculation in the indebted everyday
pp 119-144

6 - Digital subprime: tracking the credit trackers
pp 145-174

7 - Debt, usury and the ongoing crises of capitalism
pp 175-194

8 - The art of unpayable debts
pp 195-230

9 - Ecologies of indebtedness
pp 231-250

Index
pp 251-256

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