The Personal Life of Debt

The Personal Life of Debt

Forfatter: Ryan Davey
Forlag: Bristol University Press
Udgave: 1
Udgivelsesdato: 2025
ISBN: 1529239435

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Runner-up for the 2026 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

As the cost of living rises, British households face unprecedented levels of debt. But many commentators characterise those who stash away envelopes, leave telephones ringing, or hide from debt collectors as irresponsible.

The first full-length ethnography of debt problems in Britain, this book uses long-term fieldwork on a southern English housing estate to give a sensitive retelling of the everyday lives of indebted people.

It argues that the inequalities of debt go beyond economic questions to include the way state coercion hinders people’s efforts to define what they truly value. Indeed, from finance to housing and even parenthood, the potential for dispossession has become a pervasive method of power that strikes at the heart of personal life.

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