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the lived experience of bankruptcy and redemption
Front Cover -- Thriving Beyond Debt: The Lived Experience of Bankruptcy and Redemption -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- What is this book about? -- A brief note on terms: over-indebtedness, insolvency and bankruptcy -- A brief note on methods -- Lived experience -- Theories and metaphors of debt -- The case for debt relief -- 2 A Deluge of Debt -- Introduction -- The neoliberal turn -- Loans for wages -- The asset economy -- Modernizing debt relief -- What changed?
The survival of stigma -- Who goes bankrupt and why? -- What should the goal of relief be? Fresh starts versus dirty starts in LMEs -- Conclusion -- 3 The Uncertainties of Debt -- The good life -- The good life under attack -- Becoming a debtor -- Till debt do us part -- Nobody will give me a job -- Everything is so expensive these days -- Symbolic gestures -- Conclusion -- 4 Opening the Sweatbox -- The purgatory of debt -- The sweatbox -- The trials of purgatory: time and anxiety -- Reform through necessary suffering -- Pastoral power -- Creditors -- Debt advice -- Investigating insolvency
Conclusion -- 5 Applying for Insolvency -- A knock on the door -- Confessing -- Class and gender -- Why do it this way? -- Conclusion -- 6 A Clean Slate -- Economic theology and capitalism -- The Protective Certificate -- Reasonable Living Expenses -- Convincing your creditors: the veto -- International comparisons -- Tabula rasa -- Managing salvation -- Conclusion -- 7 Coping and Surviving -- Facing rejection -- Cruel optimism -- Mimesis, scapegoating, and sacrifice -- Resisting neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- The takeaways -- Morality matters -- Living through over-indebtedness
Processing debtors -- A downpour of debt -- A political economy of obligations -- Economic theology -- Making sacrifices -- The limits of transferability -- What is to be done? -- A new jubilee -- Reforming insolvency: from debtfare to welfare -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 3 -- Bibliography -- Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2024