Donncha Marron
Biographic Data
| ID | 189186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donncha Marron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donncha |
| FAMILY NAME | Marron |
| SIGNATURE | MARRON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Robert Gordon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3093-4851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880–1930
Review of the book "The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880–1930" by Cesare Silla
Stop Smoking the Easyway: Addiction, Self-Help, and Tobacco Cessation
This article examines Easyway, a popular clinical and self-help method for the treatment of smoking addiction established by the late Allen Carr in 1984. It begins by addressing how smoking has come to be constituted as a neuropharmacological addiction and some of the issues and concerns raised against this in the social sciences. After situating its theoretical and empirical focus, the article then proceeds with an interpretative thematic analys…
Smoke gets in your eyes: What Is Sociological About Cigarettes
Contemporary public health approaches increasingly draw attention to the unequal social distribution of cigarette smoking. In contrast, critical accounts emphasize the importance of smokers' situated agency, the relevance of embodiment and how public health measures against smoking potentially play upon and exacerbate social divisions and inequality. Nevertheless, if the social context of cigarettes is worthy of such attention, and sociology lays…
Debt, consumption and freedom: Social scientific representations of consumer credit in Anglo-America
The article explores a range of social scientific representations of credit and debt in the United States and Britain and how these have been organized around the problem of freedom. On the one hand, credit is projected as productive, embodying and securing liberal values of individual autonomy and self-determination. On the other, debt is portrayed as consumptive, ensnaring the individual, subverting her or his will and undermining the capacity …
Informed, educated and more confident: Financial Capability and the Problematization of Personal Finance Consumption
The focus of this paper is the concept of financial capability that has developed within Britain over the last 10 years as a means of problematizing personal finance consumption. It critically examines how authorities have come to delineate the problem of financial capability and how this has been located by them within a wider trajectory of social change and complexity. This is followed by an attempt that explain this emergent concern by positin…
Governing Poverty in a Neoliberal Age: New Labour and the Case of Financial Exclusion
In the UK, from the 1990s, the concept of financial exclusion emerged as a focus of policymaking concern. In part, this reflects the growing scale and complexity of personal finance markets and how these are increasingly interwoven into the everyday lives of individuals. However, it is also argued that the development of the concept of financial exclusion reflects preeminent neoliberal discourses that emphasise the centrality of individual respon…
Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink
Louis Hyman, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011), 378 (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, £24.95/$35.00). Too few historians and social scientists have given atte
Producing Over-Indebtedness: Risk, Prudence and Consumer Vulnerability
This paper sets out to show how, in recent years, governing authorities have responded to problematic personal debt through the emergent concept of ‘over-indebtedness’. As mainstream consumer credit has become progressively de-moralized, authoritative intervention now turns particular attention to problematizing the financial subject's freedom and autonomy, their ability to choose. The concept of over-indebtedness reveals that authorities acknowl…
Consumer Credit in the United States: A Sociological Perspective from the 19th Century to the Present
Consuming by Installments: The Rise of Retail Credit
W ithin this chapter, we will examine the development of retail installment credit in the nineteenth century and the ways in which it manifests a significantly different history to the practices of small loans that we have already looked at. Fundamentally, retail credit was not understood by American courts to be a credit transaction in the same way that cash borrowing and pawnbroking were. It was developed by small retailers as a way of boosting…
Consumer credit in the United States: A Sociological Perspective From the 19th Century to the Present
Alter Reality: Governing the Risk of Identity Theft
This article examines the recent development of identity theft as a crime within the United States, specifically the appropriation of personal information for the fraudulent adoption of consumer credit accounts. It is demonstrated that identity theft, conceptualized within a discourse of risk, has a realist dimension as an unintended consequence of the deployment of information technologies in the securitization of consumer identities. However, t…
Lending by numbers: Credit scoring and the constitution of risk within American consumer credit
This paper examines how statistical credit-scoring technologies, sanctioned by the state in the interests of promoting equality, became applied by lenders to the problem of controlling levels of default within American consumer credit. However, these technologies, constituting consumers as ‘risks’, are themselves seen to be problematic, subject to their own conceived sets of methodological, procedural and temporal risks. Nevertheless, as this art…
Lending by numbers: Credit scoring and the constitution of risk within American consumer credit
This paper examines how statistical credit-scoring technologies, sanctioned by the state in the interests of promoting equality, became applied by lenders to the problem of controlling levels of default within American consumer credit. However, these technologies, constituting consumers as ‘risks’, are themselves seen to be problematic, subject to their own conceived sets of methodological, procedural and temporal risks. Nevertheless, as this art…
Informed, educated and more confident: Financial Capability and the Problematization of Personal Finance Consumption
The focus of this paper is the concept of financial capability that has developed within Britain over the last 10 years as a means of problematizing personal finance consumption. It critically examines how authorities have come to delineate the problem of financial capability and how this has been located by them within a wider trajectory of social change and complexity. This is followed by an attempt that explain this emergent concern by positin…
Producing Over-Indebtedness: Risk, Prudence and Consumer Vulnerability
This paper sets out to show how, in recent years, governing authorities have responded to problematic personal debt through the emergent concept of ‘over-indebtedness’. As mainstream consumer credit has become progressively de-moralized, authoritative intervention now turns particular attention to problematizing the financial subject's freedom and autonomy, their ability to choose. The concept of over-indebtedness reveals that authorities acknowl…
Governing Poverty in a Neoliberal Age: New Labour and the Case of Financial Exclusion
In the UK, from the 1990s, the concept of financial exclusion emerged as a focus of policymaking concern. In part, this reflects the growing scale and complexity of personal finance markets and how these are increasingly interwoven into the everyday lives of individuals. However, it is also argued that the development of the concept of financial exclusion reflects preeminent neoliberal discourses that emphasise the centrality of individual respon…
Alter Reality: Governing the Risk of Identity Theft
This article examines the recent development of identity theft as a crime within the United States, specifically the appropriation of personal information for the fraudulent adoption of consumer credit accounts. It is demonstrated that identity theft, conceptualized within a discourse of risk, has a realist dimension as an unintended consequence of the deployment of information technologies in the securitization of consumer identities. However, t…
Debt, consumption and freedom: Social scientific representations of consumer credit in Anglo-America
The article explores a range of social scientific representations of credit and debt in the United States and Britain and how these have been organized around the problem of freedom. On the one hand, credit is projected as productive, embodying and securing liberal values of individual autonomy and self-determination. On the other, debt is portrayed as consumptive, ensnaring the individual, subverting her or his will and undermining the capacity …
Alter Reality: Governing the Risk of Identity Theft
This article examines the recent development of identity theft as a crime within the United States, specifically the appropriation of personal information for the fraudulent adoption of consumer credit accounts. It is demonstrated that identity theft, conceptualized within a discourse of risk, has a realist dimension as an unintended consequence of the deployment of information technologies in the securitization of consumer identities. However, t…
Lending by numbers: Credit scoring and the constitution of risk within American consumer credit
This paper examines how statistical credit-scoring technologies, sanctioned by the state in the interests of promoting equality, became applied by lenders to the problem of controlling levels of default within American consumer credit. However, these technologies, constituting consumers as ‘risks’, are themselves seen to be problematic, subject to their own conceived sets of methodological, procedural and temporal risks. Nevertheless, as this art…
Consumer Credit in the United States: A Sociological Perspective from the 19th Century to the Present
Consuming by Installments: The Rise of Retail Credit
W ithin this chapter, we will examine the development of retail installment credit in the nineteenth century and the ways in which it manifests a significantly different history to the practices of small loans that we have already looked at. Fundamentally, retail credit was not understood by American courts to be a credit transaction in the same way that cash borrowing and pawnbroking were. It was developed by small retailers as a way of boosting…
Consumer credit in the United States: A Sociological Perspective From the 19th Century to the Present
Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink
Louis Hyman, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011), 378 (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, £24.95/$35.00). Too few historians and social scientists have given atte
Producing Over-Indebtedness: Risk, Prudence and Consumer Vulnerability
This paper sets out to show how, in recent years, governing authorities have responded to problematic personal debt through the emergent concept of ‘over-indebtedness’. As mainstream consumer credit has become progressively de-moralized, authoritative intervention now turns particular attention to problematizing the financial subject's freedom and autonomy, their ability to choose. The concept of over-indebtedness reveals that authorities acknowl…
Governing Poverty in a Neoliberal Age: New Labour and the Case of Financial Exclusion
In the UK, from the 1990s, the concept of financial exclusion emerged as a focus of policymaking concern. In part, this reflects the growing scale and complexity of personal finance markets and how these are increasingly interwoven into the everyday lives of individuals. However, it is also argued that the development of the concept of financial exclusion reflects preeminent neoliberal discourses that emphasise the centrality of individual respon…
Informed, educated and more confident: Financial Capability and the Problematization of Personal Finance Consumption
The focus of this paper is the concept of financial capability that has developed within Britain over the last 10 years as a means of problematizing personal finance consumption. It critically examines how authorities have come to delineate the problem of financial capability and how this has been located by them within a wider trajectory of social change and complexity. This is followed by an attempt that explain this emergent concern by positin…
Debt, consumption and freedom: Social scientific representations of consumer credit in Anglo-America
The article explores a range of social scientific representations of credit and debt in the United States and Britain and how these have been organized around the problem of freedom. On the one hand, credit is projected as productive, embodying and securing liberal values of individual autonomy and self-determination. On the other, debt is portrayed as consumptive, ensnaring the individual, subverting her or his will and undermining the capacity …
Smoke gets in your eyes: What Is Sociological About Cigarettes
Contemporary public health approaches increasingly draw attention to the unequal social distribution of cigarette smoking. In contrast, critical accounts emphasize the importance of smokers' situated agency, the relevance of embodiment and how public health measures against smoking potentially play upon and exacerbate social divisions and inequality. Nevertheless, if the social context of cigarettes is worthy of such attention, and sociology lays…
Stop Smoking the Easyway: Addiction, Self-Help, and Tobacco Cessation
This article examines Easyway, a popular clinical and self-help method for the treatment of smoking addiction established by the late Allen Carr in 1984. It begins by addressing how smoking has come to be constituted as a neuropharmacological addiction and some of the issues and concerns raised against this in the social sciences. After situating its theoretical and empirical focus, the article then proceeds with an interpretative thematic analys…
The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880–1930
Review of the book "The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880–1930" by Cesare Silla
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Consumption (sociology (3 works) · Debt (3 works) · Law (3 works)