Households and Financialization in Europe develops a processual, relational and critical
transdisciplinary approach to household financialization in Europe, utilizing a range of
national and local case studies. It does so by drawing on debates in Marxist, feminist and
radical IPE, anthropology and other fields. The book explores the household as
simultaneously a micro-level social institution specializing in social reproduction, distribution
and other activities; a building bloc of larger economic and social structures; and an object of …

This book is the second volume of the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy edited by
James Bassett, Suzanne Soederberg and Eleni Tsingou. This volume focuses on a
particular set of European countries with peripheral or semi-peripheral status according to
world systems theory, and representing the Southern (Spain, Italy, Greece) and Eastern
(Czechia, Hungary, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia)(semi-) peripheries of the European
core. The Introduction develops a sophisticated theoretical framework for the rest of the book …