Performing Housing Debt Attachments: Forming Semi-financialised Subjects

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1493611" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1493611</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1493611" target="_blank" >10.1080/17530350.2018.1493611</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Performing Housing Debt Attachments: Forming Semi-financialised Subjects

Original language description

This article contributes to the understanding of how first-time buyers and their parents form attachments to housing debt. Interviews, carried out in the Czech Republic, with 40 first-time homebuyers and 10 with their parents were used to identify multiple layers of debt performativity. These layers consist of statements expressing moral evaluations and emotions, calculative and cognitive devices, and references to practices. Two arguments are advanced through a framework of layered performativity. The first argument concerns the subjectivities of debtors. Debtors adopt investment concepts in their statements and use calculative devices. However, by relying on familial moral orders of security and familial financial transfers, these debtors must be regarded rather as semi-financialised subjects. The second argument relates to the re-configuration of social and economic relations in families. Debt attachment endorses the use of intergenerational financial transfers, which in turn may enforce continued intra-familial reciprocity, both in terms of the recipients’ obligation to the providers of a gift or loan as well as concerning an obligation to help their children attain homeownership in the future. Finally, intergenerational transfers also transform the character of the mortgage market and mortgage debt, making informal debts an important part of formal debt circuits.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-06335S" target="_blank" >GA16-06335S: Housing Based Welfare: Risks and Implications of Release of Housing Wealth to Support Retirement Income</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Cultural Economy

ISSN

1753-0350

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

549-564

UT code for WoS article

000456800700004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85051121048