Published
Apr 1, 2025Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1529239423Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Apr 1, 2025Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1529239416Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Apr 1, 2025Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1529239430Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
The Personal Life of Debt
Ryan Davey is Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University.
Introduction
Part I. Expressions of debt
Chapter 1. Making debt into an object: the work of debt advisers
Interlude: Economic life in Woldham
Chapter 2. “You can’t argue with them”: debt and the struggle for value
Part II. Prospects of expropriation
Interlude: Debt and the household
Chapter 3. Unsettled homes
Chapter 4. “But I do wish better for my kids”
Chapter 5. The arts of indebted optimism
Conclusion
