Join us for the Political Economy Centre's hybrid book launch for Dr Barbora Černušáková's Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism.

The Personal Life of Debt - Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain; The first full-length ethnography of debt problems in Britain, this book uses long-term fieldwork on a southern English ho...

Living with debt - and has inequality become ingrained? Laurie Taylor hears new research.

Living with debt - and has inequality become ingrained? Laurie Taylor hears new research.

Legal debt enforcement and state coercion reinforce British class inequality in an exploitative financial system. Ethnographic research by Ryan Davey.

YouTube video by Bristol University Press

As the cost of living rises, British households face unprecedented levels of debt. But what do we mean by 'in debt' and how do people get into this situation? Ryan Davey, author of 'The Personal…

Join us for the launch of three new books on the anthropology of Britain

In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...

Ryan Davey, author of 'The Personal Life of Debt', discusses a Channel 4 documentary where Michael Sheen spent £100,000 to cancel £1 million of debt, exposing exploitative debt-buying practices.

A researcher spent 18 months living in a community where debt problems were commonplace.

A researcher spent 18 months living in a community where debt problems were commonplace.

New blog: The Class Politics of Debt by Dr Ryan Davey explores how debt fuels class inequality, how the working class resists it—and why ignoring debt might just work. Based on his research in T...

About 11 per cent of households in Yorkshire and Humber missed a council tax payment between 2022 and 2024, research shows

Dr Ryan Davey spent 18 months living in a community where debt problems were commonplace

Martin Shipton Cardiff University Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner, who is presiding over a hugely controversial cuts proposal, was part of a senior management team that pushed through similar cuts at the...

Martin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that no formal vote was taken at its supreme governing body, the University Council, to endorse controversial plans for the development of a new “branch ...

Martin Shipton Cardiff University’s threat to take action against the University and College Union for comments it made to Nation.Cymru could be in breach of a law protecting academic freedom, we have...