Caring for Debts: How the Household Economy Exposes the Limits of Financialisation

Montgomerie, Johnna; Tepe-Belfrage, Daniela

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“…She explains how affecting caring enables her to pursue her business idea during the financial crisis and austerity and illustrates the importance of feeling for others as a way of transforming ourselves and the world (Hemmings, 2012). In this sense, the financial crisis and austerity represent a challenge and a threat, both to the stability and unity of the family and, in more serious cases, to its actual survival (Montgomerie & Tepe-Balfrage, 2017). In that context spousal trust and encouragement is paramount.…”

Section: Affective Caring: Resources Of Belongingmentioning

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“…This example challenges naturalistic gender binaries regarding care actions (Calasanti & King, 2007) However, while all participants indicate supportive spousal and parental emotional engagement this may come in different forms, drawing on a broader range of affects, putting sometimes at stake the resilience of the family. In this sense, the financial crisis and austerity represent a challenge and a threat, both to the stability and unity of the family and, in more serious cases, to its actual survival (Montgomerie & Tepe-Balfrage, 2017). On such occasions, affective caring provoked a move to negotiate family and business dynamics.…”

Section: My Parents Do Not Have Any Relation With the Enterprise Sectmentioning

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Family as a eudaimonic bubble: Women entrepreneurs mobilizing resources of care during persistent financial crisis and austerity

Meliou

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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Drawing on the conceptualization of family as a eudaimonic bubble, the study explores how women entrepreneurs mobilize familial resources to navigate the gendered challenges faced during persistent financial crisis and austerity in Greece, a country affected by acute socioeconomic crisis. Through qualitative interviews with women who started their own business during the financial crisis, it investigates how the allocation of resources and opportunities built on care enabled women to start and sustain their own business and achieve a degree of normative conformity, creating social cohesion in the here and now. The analysis reveals the transformational potential of familial care by illustrating three modes of resources of care that contribute to business viability, and positions the family, an organizing principle, in the centre of research on gendered mobilizations in crisis economies. In that way, the study critically contributes to debates regarding gender, entrepreneurship and austerity.

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Section: Affective Caring: Resources Of Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: My Parents Do Not Have Any Relation With the Enterprise Sectmentioning

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Family as a eudaimonic bubble: Women entrepreneurs mobilizing resources of care during persistent financial crisis and austerity

Meliou

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Other frequently mentioned reasons in this survey were unemployment (35%), illness (27%), break-ups (19%), moving to new accommodation (8%), becoming a pensioner (8%) and other unspecified reasons (30%). As noted by Poppe [18] and others [28,29], the relationship between payment problems, income and debt is complex.…”

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Should GPs ask patients about their financial concerns? Exploration through collaborative research

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Kaspersen

et al. 2020

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

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Objective: Health services should arguably be concerned about the financial situation of patients since health problems can cause financial concerns, which in turn can cause health problems. In this study, we explored the role of the general practitioner (GP) as a potential early discoverer of financial problems who can refer at-risk patients to financial counselling services. Design: A collaborative health service research experiment. For four weeks, GPs asked their patients predefined questions about financial concerns and health, by anonymous data mapping. GPs shared their experiences with the researchers after the experiment. Setting: One GP office in Norway. Subjects: A total of 565 patients were included in data mapping by 8 GPs. Main outcome measures: Patient prevalence data and GPs experimental data of patients' health problems that caused financial concerns and financial concerns that affected patients' health. Results: Of 565 GP patients, 11% (n ¼ 63) indicated that they had health problems causing them financial concerns, or vice versa; 9% of patients reported health problems causing financial concerns and 8% of patients reported financial concerns that affected their health. Through the data mapping experiment GPs became aware of financial concerns of their patients and by this expanded and improved their therapeutic toolbox. Several months after the experiment the GPs reported that more patients received financial counselling since the GPs asked their patients about financial problems more often than before and because the patients had heard that GPs cared about such problems. Conclusion: Our results suggest that GPs can be early discoverers of financial problems interacting with their patients' health. When there are no clear medical explanations for the health problems that prompted the consultation, the best therapy may thus be financial counselling. KEY POINTS Many people live on the edge of financial ruin and struggle to keep track of their finances, but limited research exists that investigates associations between finance and health. In a collaborative health services research experiment 11% of the patients at a Norwegian GP office had health problems that caused them financial concerns, or vice versa. GPs found it helpful to ask patients about their financial concerns when no clear medical explanations for their health problems was found. Then free financial counselling services could be offered.

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“…Debt is not only a numerical abstract that one owes but also something one lives through as sustaining life (Joseph, 2014; see also "wearing debt" in Harker, Sayyad, & Shebeitah, 2019). Despite standardized framings that conceptualize debt as a matter of financial arithmetic (i.e., debt per capita household), households "care for debts" as intimate labor processes (Montgomerie & Tepe-Belfrage, 2017). Subsequently, the obligation of repayment reminds people that "the haunting debt follows debtor", making them feel "endlessly trapped by the past" (Davies, Montgomerie, & Wallin, 2015, 45).…”

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The financialization of everyday life: Caring for debts

Karaagac

2020

Geography Compass

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Caring for Debts: How the Household Economy Exposes the Limits of Financialisation

Abstract: This article uses the United Kingdom as a case study to explore the limits of financialisation.

Cited by 57 publications

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Family as a eudaimonic bubble: Women entrepreneurs mobilizing resources of care during persistent financial crisis and austerity

Family as a eudaimonic bubble: Women entrepreneurs mobilizing resources of care during persistent financial crisis and austerity

Should GPs ask patients about their financial concerns? Exploration through collaborative research

The financialization of everyday life: Caring for debts

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