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Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism

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Description for Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMC; KC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 288.

It is commonplace to say that criminals pay their debt to society by spending time in prison, but what is a “debt to society”? How is crime understood as a debt? How has time become the equivalent for crime? And how does criminal debt relate to the kind of debt held by consumers and university students?

In Debt to Society, Miranda Joseph explores modes of accounting as they are used to create, sustain, or transform social relations. Envisioning accounting broadly to include financial accounting, managerial accounting of costs and performance, and the calculation of “debts to society” owed by criminals, Joseph ... Read more

Exploring central components of neoliberalism (and neoliberalism in crisis) from incarceration to personal finance and university management, Debt to Society exposes the uneven distribution of accountability within our society. Joseph demonstrates how ubiquitous the forces of accounting have become in shaping all aspects of our lives, proposing that we appropriate accounting and offer alternative accounts to turn the present toward a more widely shared well-being.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816687442
SKU
V9780816687442
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Miranda Joseph
Miranda Joseph is professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She is author of Against the Romance of Community (Minnesota, 2002).

Reviews for Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism
 "Debt to Society provides an innovative and ambitious scholarly intervention across a wide swath of fields, with much fresh thinking and provocative reframing in every one. Miranda Joseph analyzes the diverse and conflicted neoliberal norm of entrepreneurial subjectivity, searching for and illuminating its possible breaking points." —Lisa Duggan, New York University "I’ve been distressed by the increasing focus on debt ... Read more

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