The Personal Life of Debt

Introduction

Part I. Expressions of Indebtedness

1. “You can’t argue with them”: debt and the struggle for value

2. Making debt into an object: the work of debt advisers

Part II. Prospects of expropriation

3. Unsettled homes: the interruptible futures and violable spaces of rented housing

Chapter 4. “But I do wish better for my kids”: parental attachment and forced child removal

Chapter 5. The arts of indebted optimism: between fiction and reality

Conclusion