Special Double Issue Of Cultural Studies: Everyday Credit And Debt

Advance copies of the articles that comprise the forthcoming ‘Everyday Debt and Credit’ double Special Issue of Cultural Studies, edited by Joe Deville (PERC affiliate and member of Debt Research Net) and Greg Seigworth, are now available on the journal website.

Introduction

Everyday Credit and Debt Joe Deville and Gregory J. Seigworth

SECTION ONE: INTIMACIES

1. Bonded Life: Technologies of Racial Finance from Slave Insurance to Philanthrocapital Zenia Kish & Justin Leroy
2. An Army of Debt: Financial Readiness and the Military Family Liz Montegary
3. Mothering Through Precarity: Becoming Mamapreneurial Julie Ann Wilson & Emily Chivers Yochim
4. Everyday Leverage, or Leveraging the Everyday Fiona Allon

SECTION TWO: LOCALITIES

5. In New Warsaw: Mortgage Credit & the Unfolding of Space and Time Mateusz Halawa
6. The Financialization of Everyday Life or the Domestication of Finance? How Mortgages Engage With Borrowers’ Temporal Horizons, Relationships, and Rationality in Hungary Lena Pellandini-Simanyi, Ferenc Hammer, and Zsuzsanna Vargha

SECTION THREE: MORALITIES

7. The Moral Performativity of Credit and Debt in the Slums of Buenos Aires Ariel Wilkis
8. Where are the Consumers? ‘Real Households’ & the Financialization of Consumption in Chile Felipe Gonzalez

SECTION FOUR: TECHNOLOGIES

9. Recording the Ambiguity: The Moral Economy of Debt Books in a Russian Small Town Greg Yudin & Ivan Pavluytkin
10. Credit (Re)Connections: Finite Objects, Affiliations, and Interactivity in Two Portuguese Retail Banks Daniel Seabra Lopes
11. Everyday Relationalities: Situating Peer-to-Peer Lending and the Rolling Jubilee Rob Aitken
12. The Appetites of App-Based Finance: Affective and Speculative Futures Matthew Tiessen