Homeownership in Israel: The social costs of middle-class debt

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 128-149

  Weiss, Hadas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Credit; Financialization; Housing; Mortgage; Political agency; Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894300524     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14506/ca29.1.08     Document Type: Article

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