Households and Financialization in Europe: Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries

ISBN-13: 9780367464554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 184 str.

Marek Mikus; Petra Rodik

Opis

Households and Financialization in Europe develops a processual, relational and critical transdisciplinary approach to household financialization in Europe, utilizing a range of national and local case studies. It does so by drawing on debates in Marxist, feminist and radical IPE, anthropology and other fields.

Spis treści

Introduction: Households and Peripheral Financialization in Eastern and Southern Europe  Section I: Collateralization of Social Ties  1. Within and Beyond the Household: Spanish Mortgage Debtors’ Tactics to Cope with Financialization in a Semi-periphery  2. "I would not be a loan guarantor even for my blood brother": Financialization of Inter-household Solidarity and the Privatization of Risk in Bosnia and Herzegovina  Section II: Spaces of Financialized Housing and Reproduction  3. Semi-peripheral Financialization and Informal Household Solutions: Embedded Scales of Uneven Development in Hungarian Urban Fringes  4. The Strange Non-death of the "Normal" Household: Ciudad Valdeluz and Homeownership Across the Economic Cycle  Section III: Financialized Households in Public Discourse and Culture  5. Household Credit in the Making and Breaking of Greek Households: Two Decades of Financialization  6. "For the sake of consumer protection": Blending Paternalism and Neoliberalism in the Discursive Financialization of Households in the Czech Republic  Afterword