Finance and the household are a pair that has not received sufficient attention. As a system,
finance joins citizens, states, and global markets through the connections of kinship and …

Building on, and going beyond, the state-of-the-art literature, this article aims to advance the
analysis and conceptualization of the financialization of households. It argues that there is a …

Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of
financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible for managing household debt …

In the last decade, urban social movements that emerged in the Yugoslav successor states
decided to form political platforms to enter the institutional arena, often after years of …

This special section aims to shed light on moral milieus and agencies in contemporary
capitalist central and eastern Europe. Drawing on case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech …

This study analyzes public housing residualization as a multiscalar phenomenon, providing
specific details about how it happened in a Central and East European context via the …

This Special Feature is the first regional and holistic comparative study of Swiss franc (CHF)
mortgages in Eastern Europe from the mid-2000s up to now. We examine this form of …

In recent decades, evolving residential preferences among young middle-class families
have diversified spatial mobility patterns, challenging the traditional suburban inclination …

There has been a noticeable delay in the emergence of a sociology of debt, and of mortgage
debt in particular. This paper seeks to fill this gap by testing whether and how the form of …

Personal debt is a device increasing one's agency but embedded within moral and legal
frameworks that constructs people as individualised financial subjects. This article aims to …