Consumer credit default and collections: the shifting ontologies of market attachment

Consumption Markets and Culture

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 468-490

  Deville, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

affect; consumer credit; consumption; debt collection; default; intimacy; markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904269999     PISSN: 10253866     EISSN: 1477223X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2013.849593     Document Type: Article

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