Lived Economies of Default

Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect

af Joe Deville

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