We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer
credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion. We describe the ways …

The interventions of crisis management during the 2007 to 2011 financial crisis were not
simply responses to a set of given developments in markets, banking or neo-liberal …

Consumer credit borrowing–using credit cards, store cards and personal loans–is an
important and routine part of many of our lives. But what happens when these everyday …

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 …

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and
engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the …

The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the
poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these …

This paper considers two cases from the “unpackaged movement” as examples of market
detachment: the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's campaign to develop “a new plastics …

Existing studies on financialisation have used Foucauldian governmentality to examine how
everyday consumers, shaped by state initiatives and proliferation of financial products, are …

In this article, we examine the recent shift in financial markets toward high-frequency trading
(HFT). This turn is being legitimized with reference to how algorithms are allegedly more …

The purpose of this paper is to study the place of detachment processes in market
innovation. The authors draw on the case of short food supply chains, especially those …