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 …

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 PhD thesis is motivated by the fairly recent acceleration of creditdriven personal
indebtedness in Denmark. The thesis focuses on people who live with debt in Denmark …

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 article uses the United Kingdom as a case study to explore the limits of financialisation.
It makes visible the increasingly intimate relationship between financialisation, indebtedness …

In many respects, these two positions can be seen to frame the contemporary politics of
debt, which centre upon the struggle between two different visions of 'economy'defined on …

Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become a serious problem that
threatens to destroy the global socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of …

The systemic necessity to take on ever more unsecured credit simply to go about the
business of everyday life in a financialised society is still positioned as a personal choice …

Abstract During Europe's Middle Ages, individuals who found themselves in debt that they
were unable to repay were incarcerated together in large single cells until their families paid …

This paper examines household debt in the United Kingdom, using the practices and
organisation of the debt advice sector as a prism for understanding the changing role of debt …