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 …

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 book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding
debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass …

Markets for consumer credit experienced an explosive growth in both developed and
developing countries during the last decades. In the last years, two main frameworks …

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 …

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 …

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 builds upon classic economic perspectives of financial behavior by applying the
narrative identity perspective of cultural sociology to explain how lower-income families …

Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their
means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century …

Drawing together insights from key figures in the collections industry and observation at one
of the UK's largest debt purchasers, this paper opens up the socio-material mechanisms of …