Social and psychological dimensions of personal debt and the debt industry. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Carl Walker.
• Editors: Değirmencioğlu, Serdar M; Walker, Carl, 1975-
• Contents: Introduction; Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu and Carl Walker; PART I: AUSTERITY, FINANCIALISATION AND SERIAL ASSET EXTRACTION: UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONALISED SUFFERING; 1. Debt in the Everyday Lives of 100 Families Experiencing Urban Poverty in New Zealand; Darrin Hodgetts, Shiloh Groot, Kerry Chamberlain and Emily Garden; 2. All Roads Lead to Finance: A Critical Overview of Debt in the U.S.; Daniel G Cooper and Bradley D Olson; 3. The Impact of the 'Swiss Francs Loans' Crisis on Croatian Households; Petra Rodik; 4. The Consequences of Evictions in Spain; Aïda Ballester, Moisés Carmona, Rubén David Fernández, Ana González, Johanna Jiménez, Elies Martínez, Irene Moulas, Laura Peret, and Carolina Viano; 5. The Experiences of Individuals in Debt During an Era of Extreme Austerity in Greece; Alexandre Papamichail and Petros Mizamidis; PART II: THE PUBLIC FACE OF THE DEBT INDUSTRY: DISCOURSE AND WELLBEING; 6. Debt Dynamics in the UK and Beyond: How Propaganda Impedes Effective Political Action; Mark Burton; 7. The Social Construction of 'Indebted Man': Economic Crisis, Discursive Violence and the Role of Mass Media in Italy; Adriano Zamperini and Marialuisa Menegatto; 8. Chasing Happiness through Personal Debt: An Example of Neoliberal Influence in the Norwegian Society; Salman Turken, Erik Carlquist and Henry Allen; 9. 'Financial Capability' Considered from a Community Psychology-informed Process in the North East of England; Jacqui Akhurst and Jacqui Lovell; 10. The Indebted Individual: Dominant Discourses and Alternative Understandings of Personal Debt in the UK; Paul Hanna, Liz Cunningham and Carl Walker; PART III: POLITICAL HISTORIES OF PERSONAL DEBT: MANAGED DECLINE, THE DEBT INDUSTRY AND WELLBEING; 11. Peer-to-Peer Lending As a New Profit Industry and Debt Trap; Ceylan Cizmeli and Mert Demir; 12. Rethinking the Personal Debt Industry: Voices from Puerto Rico; Dolores S. Miranda Gierbolini and Ida de Jesús Collazo; 13. Personal Debt in a Third World Latin American society; Douglas Marlon Arévalo Mira; 14. The Personal Debt Industry: Racist debt practices and Pasifika peoples in New Zealand; Bruce Curtis and Cate Curtis; Conclusion; ;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages), (3 illustrations)
• Subjects: 332.02402; Social Psychology; Finance, Personal -- Social aspects; Finance, Personal -- Psychological aspects; Credit -- Social aspects; Credit -- Psychological aspects; Financial institutions -- Social aspects; Debt -- Social aspects; Debt -- Psychological aspects; Personal Finance/General; Mental Health; Social, group or collective psychology; Financial crises & disasters
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137407801; 1137407808
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.