The Sociology of Debt / / ed. by Mark Featherstone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Adkins, Lisa,; Bjerg, Ole,; Bowsher, Joshua,; Cartwright, Laura,; Davis, Mark,; Dawney, Leila,; Deville, Joe,; Featherstone, Mark,; Gane, Nicholas,; Haiven, Max,; Kirwan, Samuel,; Walker, Rosie,
• HerausgeberIn: Featherstone, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 2 Black and White

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: towards a sociology of debt -- Debt, complexity and the sociological imagination -- Debt drive and the imperative of growth -- Memory, counter-memory and resistance: notes on the ‘Greek Debt Truth Commission’ -- ‘Deferred lives’: money, debt and the financialised futures of young temporary workers -- ‘Choose your moments’: discipline and speculation in the indebted everyday -- Digital subprime: tracking the credit trackers -- Debt, usury and the ongoing crises of capitalism -- The art of unpayable debts -- Ecologies of indebtedness -- Index