Existing research on how consumers experience increasing debt as normal focuses on the
shifting moral meanings surrounding debt. Examining rapid mortgage debt escalation in …

Credit, debt and indebtedness are key terms for understanding contemporary social and
economic life. In many recent accounts of debt, however, debt is largely an ahistorical …

This research develops a theoretical account of cultural meanings as integral mechanisms
in the normalization of credit/debt. Analysis derives these meanings from the credit/debt …

Scholars applying notions of governmentality and performativity to everyday finance and
work on the financialization of daily life suggest that the daily encounter with financial …

Lived relations to credit and debt can steadily sink into the everyday in ways that are often
missed in analyses that attend to the more immediately visible and eventful aspects of …

This paper sets out to show how, in recent years, governing authorities have responded to
problematic personal debt through the emergent concept of 'over-indebtedness'. As …

From conversations overheard on the bus or in the gym, to warnings voiced by
macroeconomists and major financial institutions (Keen, 2017; Brazier, 2017); everything is …

Existing accounts of consumer credit market making have done much to explore the
business models, technologies and advertising practices of lenders, and the financial …

This article provides an editorial introduction to the special issue of Consumption Markets &
Culture devoted to the consolidated mass markets and cultures of contemporary consumer …

This article focuses on credit consumption and increasing debt among Danish young adults
by viewing this as closely related to new cultural concepts of money in credit based markets …