Lived Economies of Default: Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect - Paperback

by Joe Deville (Author)

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 forms of borrowing go 'bad', when people cannot, or will not, repay? Drawing on research from the interior of the debt collections industry, it examines precisely how this ever

Author Biography

Joe Deville is a researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, based jointly at the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process and the Political Economy Research Centre. He is also the co-founder of the Charisma research network and an editor at Journal of Cultural Economy.