Montgomerie, J. and Tepe-Belfrage, D. (2017) Caring for debts : how the household economy exposes the limits of financialisation. Critical Sociology, 43 (4-5). pp. 653-668. ISSN 0896-9205
Abstract
This article uses the United Kingdom as a case study to explore the limits of financialisation. It makes visible the increasingly intimate relationship between financialisation, indebtedness and social reproduction under the conditions of neoliberal austerity (Fraser 2014). It does so by unpacking how the everyday experiences of indebtedness materialise among individuals, households and communities. Specifically, we investigate debt’s significance within the household economy by analysing the everyday talk within ‘debt threads’ from leading Peerto- peer forums (Stanley 2014, Stanley et al., 2016). The evidence reveals how debt interferes with and disrupts the intimacies of life, and in doing so erodes its own moral economic claim as a priority obligation within the household economy. These are the limits of financialisation because if debts are not ‘cared for’ they are non-performing. And, non-performing loans – as it turns out – cause catastrophic failures in financialised global markets. This alone makes understanding the household economy relevant to why neoliberalism is failing.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © SAGE Publications, 2016. This is an author-produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Critical Sociology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy |
Keywords: | financialisation; household; social reproduction; debt; austerity; feminist political economy; everyday political economy |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2016 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2019 15:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0896920516664962 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102662 |