Excessive financialisation: Insuring lifestyles, enlivening subjects, and everyday spaces of biosocial excess

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1030-1053

  French, Shaun ^a   Kneale, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CAPITALISM; COGNITION; ETHICS; LIFESTYLE; PERCEPTION; WELFARE PROVISION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70749135658     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d7607     Document Type: Article

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