Joe Deville

Joe Deville is a postdoctoral researcher, working at the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (Goldsmiths, London). He recently published Lived Economies of Default: Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect (Routledge).

Inside the world of debt collection

Debt collection, like much of finance, relies largely on obfuscation and public ignorance.

By Joe Deville

/ 8 Jun 2015

How it became easier to borrow than it is to save: understanding the silence of the poor

Busy promoting a fantasy world of morally virtuous work and discipline, our policymakers are a long way from understanding what it means to live in poverty.

By Liz McFall and Joe Deville

/ 1 May 2015