Affective life and cultural economy: Payday loans and the everyday space‐times of credit‐debt in the UK

• DOI: 10.1111/tran.12355
• Publication Date: 2019-10-25T07:05:50Z
• Authors: Ben Anderson; Paul Langley; James Ash; Rachel Gordon
• Keywords: Everyday Life; TRACE (psycholinguistics)

Analysing the affective geographies of digitally mediated payday loans in UK, this paper advocates and exemplifies an approach to cultural economy that focuses on how economic worlds are affectively animated lived. Supplementing two versions “culture” approaches have date been organised around – culture as signifying system or assembled effect we propose a everyday space‐times which is attuned composition forms living. Drawing empirical work with 40 users loans, employ trace their become part three intersecting living: relief, pressing concern deferred immediate future; separation, private spaces created within ordinary life obligations felt individual responsibilities; pressure, demands pay intensify sense debt spiralling out control already‐ongoing precarity cannot be sustained. In conclusion, pose further questions for orientated analysis