J Deville
Biographic Data
| ID | 20853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Deville |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Deville |
| SIGNATURE | DEVILLE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0583-3493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Digitalised higher education: Key Developments, Questions, and Concerns
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Platforming pickiness: The Digitally Mediated Enactment of Childhood Avoidant Eating
Steve Woolgar has argued that science and technology studies is a prime place for studying the relationship between children and consumption [2012 “Ontological Child Consumption.” In Situating Child Consumption: Rethinking Values and Notions of Children, Childhood and Consumption, edited by B. Sandin, A. Sparrman, and J. Sjöberg, 33–51. Lund: Nordic Academic Press]. Yet this project remains largely unfulfilled, mirroring the broader absence of ch…
Financial oikonomization: The Financial Government and Administration of the Household
This article introduces a new social scientific understanding of the relationship between households and finance. We call it financial oikonomization. Financial oikonomization signals a specific research problem and a distinctive analytical approach to this problem. The problem is how households are financially administered and governed. The approach is pragmatist and descriptive. It is oriented to the how, to the study of the problems and practi…
A reply to ‘Speculating with glitches: Keeping the future moving’ by Shawn Bodden and Jen Ross: Covid-19 as glitch: a provocation for speculative ethics
A reply to ‘Speculating with glitches: keeping the future moving’ by Shawn Bodden and Jen Ross: Covid-19 as glitch: a provocation for speculative ethics?" published on Feb 2021 by Bristol University Press
Postscript: What is a debt situation
From preparedness to risk: From the Singular Risk of Nuclear War to the Plurality of All Hazards
Debates on risk have largely assumed risk to be the outcome of calculative practices. There is a related assumption that risk objects come only in one form, and that the reason not everything can be transformed into a risk is because of the difficulties in calculating and creating universal quantitative comparisons. In this article, building on recent studies of preparedness that have broadened understandings of risk, we provide an analysis of ho…
Markets and the Arts of Attachment
International audience
Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations
Mattering Press is keen to render more visible the unseen processes that go into the production of books.We would like to thank Joe Deville
Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations
This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity. Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs and other tools, and by simply looking in certain ways. Comparing like this is an everyday practice. But in the social sciences, comparing often beco…
Digital Debt Management: The Everyday Life of Austerity
The age of austerity has seen large swathes of society adversely affected by ever-harsher austerity measures and protracted economic stagnation.This is compounded by the increasing routinisation of debt default and the everyday management of problematic levels of debt.This paper explores the everyday politics of indebtedness-the multifaceted ways in which household debt is transforming debtors' lives-and the forms of resistance it can give rise t…
Debtor publics: Tracking the Participatory Politics of Consumer Credit
In the context of apparently ubiquitous relations of debt, it has been argued that the debtor possesses a unique, revolutionary potential. Why is this potential seemingly as yet unrealised? Where might nascent debtor publics be found? And what conditions, what infrastructures, might facilitate their emergence? In answering these questions, this paper argues that there are spaces where emergent "counter-agencing" debtor publics can be detected - h…
Lived Economies of Default
Consumer credit borrowing – using credit cards, store cards and personal loans – is an important and routine part of many of our lives. But what happens when these everyday forms of borrowing go ‘bad’, when people start to default on their loans and when they cannot, or will not, repay? It is this poorly understood, controversial, but central part of both the consumer credit industry and the lived experiences of an increasing number of people tha…
Everyday Debt and Credit
Lived relations to credit and debt can steadily sink into the everyday in ways that are often missed in analyses that attend to the more immediately visible and eventful aspects of financial existence. How might one address those less remarked-upon, extra-‘ordinary’ lived moments of credit and debt: moments that can come, when all is added up, to say much more about the weight of the day-to-day and, thus, offer – by their very intimacy – the sure…
Concrete Governmentality: Shelters and the Transformations of Preparedness
This article analyzes how shelters act as a form of concrete governmentality. Shelters, like other forms of preparedness, are political acts in the absence of a disaster. They are materializations and visualizations of risk calculations. Shelters as a type of concrete governmentality pose the question of how to build something that lasts and resists, and remains relevant both when the object that is being resisted keeps changing and when the very…
Consumer credit default and collections: The Shifting Ontologies of Market Attachment
Existing accounts of consumer credit market making have done much to explore the business models, technologies and advertising practices of lenders, and the financial circumstances of borrowers. However, the space of interface between consumer credit debtor and debt collector remains underexplored. Drawing on interviews with debtors and an exposition of debt collections technologies, the paper demonstrates how this market domain, in seeking to pr…
Regenerating Market Attachments: Consumer Credit Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect
Drawing together insights from key figures in the collections industry and observation at one of the UK's largest debt purchasers, this paper opens up the socio-material mechanisms of ‘market attachment’ through which, drawing on Franck Cochoy, the potential ‘captation’ of the defaulting consumer credit debtor occurs. It begins by setting out the analytical deficits in the contemporary analysis of consumer debt collection practices, before tracin…
Consumer credit default and collections: The Shifting Ontologies of Market Attachment
Existing accounts of consumer credit market making have done much to explore the business models, technologies and advertising practices of lenders, and the financial circumstances of borrowers. However, the space of interface between consumer credit debtor and debt collector remains underexplored. Drawing on interviews with debtors and an exposition of debt collections technologies, the paper demonstrates how this market domain, in seeking to pr…
Regenerating Market Attachments: Consumer Credit Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect
Drawing together insights from key figures in the collections industry and observation at one of the UK's largest debt purchasers, this paper opens up the socio-material mechanisms of ‘market attachment’ through which, drawing on Franck Cochoy, the potential ‘captation’ of the defaulting consumer credit debtor occurs. It begins by setting out the analytical deficits in the contemporary analysis of consumer debt collection practices, before tracin…
Financial oikonomization: The Financial Government and Administration of the Household
This article introduces a new social scientific understanding of the relationship between households and finance. We call it financial oikonomization. Financial oikonomization signals a specific research problem and a distinctive analytical approach to this problem. The problem is how households are financially administered and governed. The approach is pragmatist and descriptive. It is oriented to the how, to the study of the problems and practi…
Digital Debt Management: The Everyday Life of Austerity
The age of austerity has seen large swathes of society adversely affected by ever-harsher austerity measures and protracted economic stagnation.This is compounded by the increasing routinisation of debt default and the everyday management of problematic levels of debt.This paper explores the everyday politics of indebtedness-the multifaceted ways in which household debt is transforming debtors' lives-and the forms of resistance it can give rise t…
Debtor publics: Tracking the Participatory Politics of Consumer Credit
In the context of apparently ubiquitous relations of debt, it has been argued that the debtor possesses a unique, revolutionary potential. Why is this potential seemingly as yet unrealised? Where might nascent debtor publics be found? And what conditions, what infrastructures, might facilitate their emergence? In answering these questions, this paper argues that there are spaces where emergent "counter-agencing" debtor publics can be detected - h…
Concrete Governmentality: Shelters and the Transformations of Preparedness
This article analyzes how shelters act as a form of concrete governmentality. Shelters, like other forms of preparedness, are political acts in the absence of a disaster. They are materializations and visualizations of risk calculations. Shelters as a type of concrete governmentality pose the question of how to build something that lasts and resists, and remains relevant both when the object that is being resisted keeps changing and when the very…
From preparedness to risk: From the Singular Risk of Nuclear War to the Plurality of All Hazards
Debates on risk have largely assumed risk to be the outcome of calculative practices. There is a related assumption that risk objects come only in one form, and that the reason not everything can be transformed into a risk is because of the difficulties in calculating and creating universal quantitative comparisons. In this article, building on recent studies of preparedness that have broadened understandings of risk, we provide an analysis of ho…
Digitalised higher education: Key Developments, Questions, and Concerns
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Postscript: What is a debt situation
Regenerating Market Attachments: Consumer Credit Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect
Drawing together insights from key figures in the collections industry and observation at one of the UK's largest debt purchasers, this paper opens up the socio-material mechanisms of ‘market attachment’ through which, drawing on Franck Cochoy, the potential ‘captation’ of the defaulting consumer credit debtor occurs. It begins by setting out the analytical deficits in the contemporary analysis of consumer debt collection practices, before tracin…
Concrete Governmentality: Shelters and the Transformations of Preparedness
This article analyzes how shelters act as a form of concrete governmentality. Shelters, like other forms of preparedness, are political acts in the absence of a disaster. They are materializations and visualizations of risk calculations. Shelters as a type of concrete governmentality pose the question of how to build something that lasts and resists, and remains relevant both when the object that is being resisted keeps changing and when the very…
Consumer credit default and collections: The Shifting Ontologies of Market Attachment
Existing accounts of consumer credit market making have done much to explore the business models, technologies and advertising practices of lenders, and the financial circumstances of borrowers. However, the space of interface between consumer credit debtor and debt collector remains underexplored. Drawing on interviews with debtors and an exposition of debt collections technologies, the paper demonstrates how this market domain, in seeking to pr…
Lived Economies of Default
Consumer credit borrowing – using credit cards, store cards and personal loans – is an important and routine part of many of our lives. But what happens when these everyday forms of borrowing go ‘bad’, when people start to default on their loans and when they cannot, or will not, repay? It is this poorly understood, controversial, but central part of both the consumer credit industry and the lived experiences of an increasing number of people tha…
Everyday Debt and Credit
Lived relations to credit and debt can steadily sink into the everyday in ways that are often missed in analyses that attend to the more immediately visible and eventful aspects of financial existence. How might one address those less remarked-upon, extra-‘ordinary’ lived moments of credit and debt: moments that can come, when all is added up, to say much more about the weight of the day-to-day and, thus, offer – by their very intimacy – the sure…
Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations
Mattering Press is keen to render more visible the unseen processes that go into the production of books.We would like to thank Joe Deville
Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations
This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity. Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs and other tools, and by simply looking in certain ways. Comparing like this is an everyday practice. But in the social sciences, comparing often beco…
Digital Debt Management: The Everyday Life of Austerity
The age of austerity has seen large swathes of society adversely affected by ever-harsher austerity measures and protracted economic stagnation.This is compounded by the increasing routinisation of debt default and the everyday management of problematic levels of debt.This paper explores the everyday politics of indebtedness-the multifaceted ways in which household debt is transforming debtors' lives-and the forms of resistance it can give rise t…
Debtor publics: Tracking the Participatory Politics of Consumer Credit
In the context of apparently ubiquitous relations of debt, it has been argued that the debtor possesses a unique, revolutionary potential. Why is this potential seemingly as yet unrealised? Where might nascent debtor publics be found? And what conditions, what infrastructures, might facilitate their emergence? In answering these questions, this paper argues that there are spaces where emergent "counter-agencing" debtor publics can be detected - h…
Markets and the Arts of Attachment
International audience
Postscript: What is a debt situation
From preparedness to risk: From the Singular Risk of Nuclear War to the Plurality of All Hazards
Debates on risk have largely assumed risk to be the outcome of calculative practices. There is a related assumption that risk objects come only in one form, and that the reason not everything can be transformed into a risk is because of the difficulties in calculating and creating universal quantitative comparisons. In this article, building on recent studies of preparedness that have broadened understandings of risk, we provide an analysis of ho…
A reply to ‘Speculating with glitches: Keeping the future moving’ by Shawn Bodden and Jen Ross: Covid-19 as glitch: a provocation for speculative ethics
A reply to ‘Speculating with glitches: keeping the future moving’ by Shawn Bodden and Jen Ross: Covid-19 as glitch: a provocation for speculative ethics?" published on Feb 2021 by Bristol University Press
Financial oikonomization: The Financial Government and Administration of the Household
This article introduces a new social scientific understanding of the relationship between households and finance. We call it financial oikonomization. Financial oikonomization signals a specific research problem and a distinctive analytical approach to this problem. The problem is how households are financially administered and governed. The approach is pragmatist and descriptive. It is oriented to the how, to the study of the problems and practi…
Digitalised higher education: Key Developments, Questions, and Concerns
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Platforming pickiness: The Digitally Mediated Enactment of Childhood Avoidant Eating
Steve Woolgar has argued that science and technology studies is a prime place for studying the relationship between children and consumption [2012 “Ontological Child Consumption.” In Situating Child Consumption: Rethinking Values and Notions of Children, Childhood and Consumption, edited by B. Sandin, A. Sparrman, and J. Sjöberg, 33–51. Lund: Nordic Academic Press]. Yet this project remains largely unfulfilled, mirroring the broader absence of ch…
Computer Science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Finance (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Debt (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer security (3 works)