Published
Mar 27, 2024Page count
210 pagesISBN
978-1529231151Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Mar 27, 2024Page count
210 pagesISBN
978-1529231168Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Mar 27, 2024Page count
210 pagesISBN
978-1529231168Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Thriving beyond Debt
Capitalism only celebrates success, and it can be difficult to know what to do when confronted with failure.
This book explores what happens when people go broke and what the experience of bankruptcy and insolvency is like from a qualitative perspective. It shows, contrary to the expectations of policy makers, that debt relief is not transactional. Rather, it is moral, theological, social and cultural.
The book demonstrates that debt encompasses fairness, trust, faith, sin, guilt, revelation and confession and that taking these factors seriously is vital to successfully navigating the world of the over-indebted.
“Debt is not a simple financial or economic situation. Threading together an analysis of neo-liberal governmentality and the historical legacy of cultural and moral evaluations of debt, Roche illuminates the dynamic of this complex situation, and gives voice to both those who experience and administer it." Tom Boland, University College Cork
Zach Roche is Assistant Lecturer in Management Studies at South East Technological University, Ireland.
1.Introduction
2.A Deluge of Debt
3.The Uncertainties of Debt
4.Opening the Sweatbox: Purgatory and Debt Advice
5.Applying for Insolvency
6.A Clean Slate
7.Coping and Surviving
8.Conclusion: Thriving beyond Debt
