Social and Psychological Dimensions of Personal Debt and the Debt Industry [electronic resource] /
Walker, Carl.editor.
De?irmencio?lu, Serdar M.editor.
An understanding of personal debt requires an understanding of the complex social systems that produce poverty. By drawing upon international perspectives, this book investigates why more and more people are in debt, why it is causing so much mental distress and exactly who is benefiting from what has become the world's number one growth industry.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""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""; ""2 All Roads Lead to Finance: A Critical Overview of Debt in the USA""; ""3 The Impact of the Swiss Franc Loans Crisis on Croatian Households""; ""4 The Consequences of Evictions in Spain""
""5 The Experiences of Individuals in Debt during an Era of Extreme Austerity in Greece""""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""; ""7 The Social Construction of ?Indebted Man?: Economic Crisis, Discursive Violence and the Role of Mass Media in Italy""; ""8 Chasing Happiness through Personal Debt: An Example of Neoliberal Influence in Norwegian Society""; ""9 ?Financial Capability? Considered from a Community Psychology-Informed Process in the North East of England""
""10 The Indebted Individual: Dominant Discourses and Alternative Understandings of Personal Debt in the UK""""Part III: Political Histories of Personal Debt: Managed Decline, the Debt Industry and Wellbeing""; ""11 Online Peer-to-Peer Lending as a New Profit Industry and Debt Trap""; ""12 Thinking about the Personal Debt Industry: Voices from Puerto Rico""; ""13 Personal Debt in Third-World Latin American Society""; ""14 The Personal Debt Industry: Racist Debt Practices and Pasifika Peoples in New Zealand""; ""Conclusion: Thoughts for the Future""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An understanding of personal debt requires an understanding of the complex social systems that produce poverty. By drawing upon international perspectives, this book investigates why more and more people are in debt, why it is causing so much mental distress and exactly who is benefiting from what has become the world's number one growth industry.
Poverty.
Social policy.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Economics.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Clinical psychology.
Development Aid.
Social Policy.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Popular Science in Economics.
Community and Environmental Psychology.
Clinical Psychology.