This article introduces a new social scientific understanding of the relationship between
households and finance. We call it financial oikonomization. Financial oikonomization …

This study delivers a clearer understanding of the constitution of the datapreneurial
consumer, the role of the market in that construction, and the implications for consumer …

What are the challenges of turning data subjects into research participants—and how can
we approach this task responsibly? In this paper, we develop a methodology for studying the …

The financialization literature focuses on how people become docile neoliberal subjects and
pays less attention to debt resistance. This article focuses on this less explored dimension …

In the wake of successive crises, novel politics and ethics are emerging around attempts to
institute a 'new'world of finance in the name of social relations. Financial start-ups and …

This paper undertakes an analysis of publicly posted videos sharing debtors' strategies for
responding to overzealous credit collection agencies during the earliest stages of the …

La interpretación del neoliberalismo como gubernamentalidad se basa en considerarlo una
estructura dinámica que adapta y adopta las particularidades témporo-espaciales. Es a …

Mortgage debt and concomitant forms of financial expropriation continue their largely
uncontested expansion across the social terrain. The atomisation of debtors and commodity …

This article discusses the distribution of widely used consumer loans in Denmark in the light
of the “risk position” in which this places Danish households. Denmark has the highest debt …

Repeated crises have proven credit rating agency (CRA) models/methods erroneous and
“business-as-usual” unsustainable. Nevertheless, considerable dubious “default risk” …