Joe Deville (UK Lancaster University)

Lived Economies of Default

Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Consumer credit borrowing - using credit cards, store cards and personal loans - is an important and routine part of many of our lives. But what happens when these everyday forms of borrowing go 'bad', when people cannot, or will not, repay? Drawing on research from the interior of the debt collections industry, it examines precisely how this ever

Produktdetails

• CRESC
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780367867225
• ISBN-10: 0367867222
• Artikelnr.: 58440234

Autorenporträt

Joe Deville is a researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, based jointly at the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process and the Political Economy Research Centre. He is also the co-founder of the Charisma research network and an editor at Journal of Cultural Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Lived economies of default 1. 'A Curious and Sort of
Subconscious Temptation': The lure of consumer credit 2. In the Fold of
Default: Living with market attachments 3. The Discovery and Capture of
Affect: A history of debt collection 4. The Strategic Management of Affect:
Venturing inside the collections company 5. The Amplification of
Calculative Opacity: The creditor, the collector, the collections letter
Conclusion: Bringing affect to markets