‘Deferred lives’: money, debt and the financialised futures of young temporary workers

Mark Davis, L. Cartwright
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The systemic necessity to take on ever more unsecured credit simply to go about the business of everyday life in a financialized society is still positioned as a personal choice rather than an unavoidable means of survival. In our contribution to this volume, we offer a qualitative analysis of the lived experiences of indebted lives in the context of precarious temporary employment in the UK, in order to examine the extent to which young people are ‘governed’ by debt. Rather than total discipline, we demonstrate empirically how young people actively reject, resist and negotiate the debts that they undertake, challenging a normative framing of debt that seeks to condemn the moral character of struggling debtors. As well as this empirical work, our theoretical contribution here is to interpret this data in terms of what we consider to be the temporal dynamics of indebtedness, which result in living ‘deferred lives’.
“延迟的生活”:年轻临时工的金钱、债务和金融化的未来
在一个金融化的社会中,仅仅为了日常生活而接受更多无担保信贷的系统性必要性仍然被定位为一种个人选择,而不是一种不可避免的生存手段。在我们对本卷的贡献中,我们对英国不稳定的临时就业背景下负债生活的生活经历进行了定性分析,以检查年轻人被债务“支配”的程度。而不是完全的纪律,我们的经验证明了年轻人如何积极地拒绝,抵制和协商他们承担的债务,挑战了规范性的债务框架,试图谴责挣扎的债务人的道德品质。除了这项实证工作,我们在这里的理论贡献是根据我们认为的债务的时间动态来解释这些数据,这导致了生活的“延迟生活”。
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