Johnna Montgomerie
Biographic Data
| ID | 251746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johnna Montgomerie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johnna |
| FAMILY NAME | Montgomerie |
| SIGNATURE | MONTGOMERIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4219-693X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 352 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Narrating the search for a methodology of the household
This article traces the search for a household-centered methodology amid global crises, grounded in feminist traditions of reflexive and narrative scholarship. We integrate ourselves consciously into the research process while drawing on feminist analyses of the household as a key site in socio-economic transformation and the reproduction of financialized capitalism. We propose four methodological moves. First, we dismantle conventional boundarie…
Financial capital and ghosts of empire
The entangled legacies of empire
More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today’s global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today’s capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and…
Covid Keynesianism
COVID Keynesianism evaluates the USA and UK’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and compares it to the previous iterations of the Anglo-American policy response template. The analysis details the morbid character of neoliberal state intervention by tracing the distributional routes of monetary and fiscal measures into global corporations and across the domestic economy. The comparative findings show the degree to which emergency economic…
Spaces of debt resistance and the contemporary politics of financialised capitalism
Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy
Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy
Caring for Debts
This article uses the United Kingdom as a case study to explore the limits of financialisation. It makes visible the increasingly intimate relationship between financialisation, indebtedness and social reproduction under the conditions of neoliberal austerity (Fraser, 2014). It does so by unpacking how the everyday experiences of indebtedness materialise among individuals, households and communities. Specifically, we investigate debt's significan…
Austerity and the household
A Feminist Moral-Political Economy of Uneven Reform in Austerity Britain
This article draws on two empirical case studies to draw out the way in which the causes of poverty in austere times in the UK are inverted, from their socio-economic causes to making the poor themselves responsible for their misery but also responsibilising them for fighting their way out of poverty. We particularly focus on how austerity policy in the UK has involved a return of moral language of the ‘undeserving poor’. We highlight the way in …
Digital Debt Management
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…
Round the Houses
This article explores the contingencies of financialisation and housing. More specifically, how the spatial and temporal dynamics of the UK housing market ensure that homeownership does not (and arguably cannot) deliver welfare provision in the way envisioned by asset-based welfare initiatives. The first section demonstrates the fundamental problem of conceptualising households as asset-holders; in particular, with regard to housing-based welfare…
America's Debt Safety‐net
This article evaluates the rapid escalation of American household debt in relation to the changing dynamics of liberal welfare capitalism. Starting with the outcome of rising household debt levels during the credit and asset bubble of 2001–7 it argues that the failure of asset‐based welfare and the inability of households to move beyond their historical dependence on earned income made indebtedness essential to household social participation and …
An important failure
This paper introduces a theme section on knowledge limits in and after the financial crisis. It explores how and why practitioners have generally responded less conservatively to crisis than academics, and argues that academics within a variety of problematics could do more by reflecting critically on the heroic ideas about the role of knowledge which were current across the social sciences in the decade before the crisis. It then turns to introd…
Escaping the Tyranny of Earned Income? The Failure of Finance as Social Innovation
This is an article about the outcomes of the mass marketing of retail financial products in the USA since the early 1980s. Our aim is to change the frame of the debate about the democratisation of finance by evaluating the extension of credit and ownership as a major social innovation led by profit-seeking retail banks. We focus on privately led social innovations of income supplementation through credit and of security through property. Put simp…
The Pursuit of (Past) Happiness? Middle-class Indebtedness and American Financialisation
Bridging the critical divide
This article is about two distinct frameworks that evaluate why finance matters in contemporary capitalism. The International Political Economy (IPE) literature on global finance analyses the geopolitical dynamics of financial markets where finance matters because it is an integral element of power in the global political economy. The newer literature on financialisation offers an account of present day capitalist dynamics where individuals, firm…
Giving Credit where it's Due
The dominant account of rising household indebtedness in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada claims that current economic stimuli, namely low nominal interest rates and rising property markets, are the key reasons debt has grown so rapidly since the mid-1990s. By drawing on key theoretical assumptions from neoclassical economics, policy makers have argued that rising debt levels since the mid-1990s shows that households are rational …
The Pursuit of (Past) Happiness? Middle-class Indebtedness and American Financialisation
Round the Houses
This article explores the contingencies of financialisation and housing. More specifically, how the spatial and temporal dynamics of the UK housing market ensure that homeownership does not (and arguably cannot) deliver welfare provision in the way envisioned by asset-based welfare initiatives. The first section demonstrates the fundamental problem of conceptualising households as asset-holders; in particular, with regard to housing-based welfare…
America's Debt Safety‐net
This article evaluates the rapid escalation of American household debt in relation to the changing dynamics of liberal welfare capitalism. Starting with the outcome of rising household debt levels during the credit and asset bubble of 2001–7 it argues that the failure of asset‐based welfare and the inability of households to move beyond their historical dependence on earned income made indebtedness essential to household social participation and …
Escaping the Tyranny of Earned Income? The Failure of Finance as Social Innovation
This is an article about the outcomes of the mass marketing of retail financial products in the USA since the early 1980s. Our aim is to change the frame of the debate about the democratisation of finance by evaluating the extension of credit and ownership as a major social innovation led by profit-seeking retail banks. We focus on privately led social innovations of income supplementation through credit and of security through property. Put simp…
Bridging the critical divide
This article is about two distinct frameworks that evaluate why finance matters in contemporary capitalism. The International Political Economy (IPE) literature on global finance analyses the geopolitical dynamics of financial markets where finance matters because it is an integral element of power in the global political economy. The newer literature on financialisation offers an account of present day capitalist dynamics where individuals, firm…
Spaces of debt resistance and the contemporary politics of financialised capitalism
An important failure
This paper introduces a theme section on knowledge limits in and after the financial crisis. It explores how and why practitioners have generally responded less conservatively to crisis than academics, and argues that academics within a variety of problematics could do more by reflecting critically on the heroic ideas about the role of knowledge which were current across the social sciences in the decade before the crisis. It then turns to introd…
Caring for Debts
This article uses the United Kingdom as a case study to explore the limits of financialisation. It makes visible the increasingly intimate relationship between financialisation, indebtedness and social reproduction under the conditions of neoliberal austerity (Fraser, 2014). It does so by unpacking how the everyday experiences of indebtedness materialise among individuals, households and communities. Specifically, we investigate debt's significan…
A Feminist Moral-Political Economy of Uneven Reform in Austerity Britain
This article draws on two empirical case studies to draw out the way in which the causes of poverty in austere times in the UK are inverted, from their socio-economic causes to making the poor themselves responsible for their misery but also responsibilising them for fighting their way out of poverty. We particularly focus on how austerity policy in the UK has involved a return of moral language of the ‘undeserving poor’. We highlight the way in …
Digital Debt Management
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…
Giving Credit where it's Due
The dominant account of rising household indebtedness in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada claims that current economic stimuli, namely low nominal interest rates and rising property markets, are the key reasons debt has grown so rapidly since the mid-1990s. By drawing on key theoretical assumptions from neoclassical economics, policy makers have argued that rising debt levels since the mid-1990s shows that households are rational …
Financial capital and ghosts of empire
Austerity and the household
Covid Keynesianism
COVID Keynesianism evaluates the USA and UK’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and compares it to the previous iterations of the Anglo-American policy response template. The analysis details the morbid character of neoliberal state intervention by tracing the distributional routes of monetary and fiscal measures into global corporations and across the domestic economy. The comparative findings show the degree to which emergency economic…
Giving Credit where it's Due
The dominant account of rising household indebtedness in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada claims that current economic stimuli, namely low nominal interest rates and rising property markets, are the key reasons debt has grown so rapidly since the mid-1990s. By drawing on key theoretical assumptions from neoclassical economics, policy makers have argued that rising debt levels since the mid-1990s shows that households are rational …
Bridging the critical divide
This article is about two distinct frameworks that evaluate why finance matters in contemporary capitalism. The International Political Economy (IPE) literature on global finance analyses the geopolitical dynamics of financial markets where finance matters because it is an integral element of power in the global political economy. The newer literature on financialisation offers an account of present day capitalist dynamics where individuals, firm…
The Pursuit of (Past) Happiness? Middle-class Indebtedness and American Financialisation
Escaping the Tyranny of Earned Income? The Failure of Finance as Social Innovation
This is an article about the outcomes of the mass marketing of retail financial products in the USA since the early 1980s. Our aim is to change the frame of the debate about the democratisation of finance by evaluating the extension of credit and ownership as a major social innovation led by profit-seeking retail banks. We focus on privately led social innovations of income supplementation through credit and of security through property. Put simp…
An important failure
This paper introduces a theme section on knowledge limits in and after the financial crisis. It explores how and why practitioners have generally responded less conservatively to crisis than academics, and argues that academics within a variety of problematics could do more by reflecting critically on the heroic ideas about the role of knowledge which were current across the social sciences in the decade before the crisis. It then turns to introd…
America's Debt Safety‐net
This article evaluates the rapid escalation of American household debt in relation to the changing dynamics of liberal welfare capitalism. Starting with the outcome of rising household debt levels during the credit and asset bubble of 2001–7 it argues that the failure of asset‐based welfare and the inability of households to move beyond their historical dependence on earned income made indebtedness essential to household social participation and …
Round the Houses
This article explores the contingencies of financialisation and housing. More specifically, how the spatial and temporal dynamics of the UK housing market ensure that homeownership does not (and arguably cannot) deliver welfare provision in the way envisioned by asset-based welfare initiatives. The first section demonstrates the fundamental problem of conceptualising households as asset-holders; in particular, with regard to housing-based welfare…
Austerity and the household
A Feminist Moral-Political Economy of Uneven Reform in Austerity Britain
This article draws on two empirical case studies to draw out the way in which the causes of poverty in austere times in the UK are inverted, from their socio-economic causes to making the poor themselves responsible for their misery but also responsibilising them for fighting their way out of poverty. We particularly focus on how austerity policy in the UK has involved a return of moral language of the ‘undeserving poor’. We highlight the way in …
Digital Debt Management
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…
Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy
Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy
Caring for Debts
This article uses the United Kingdom as a case study to explore the limits of financialisation. It makes visible the increasingly intimate relationship between financialisation, indebtedness and social reproduction under the conditions of neoliberal austerity (Fraser, 2014). It does so by unpacking how the everyday experiences of indebtedness materialise among individuals, households and communities. Specifically, we investigate debt's significan…
Spaces of debt resistance and the contemporary politics of financialised capitalism
The entangled legacies of empire
More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today’s global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today’s capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and…
Covid Keynesianism
COVID Keynesianism evaluates the USA and UK’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and compares it to the previous iterations of the Anglo-American policy response template. The analysis details the morbid character of neoliberal state intervention by tracing the distributional routes of monetary and fiscal measures into global corporations and across the domestic economy. The comparative findings show the degree to which emergency economic…
Financial capital and ghosts of empire
Narrating the search for a methodology of the household
This article traces the search for a household-centered methodology amid global crises, grounded in feminist traditions of reflexive and narrative scholarship. We integrate ourselves consciously into the research process while drawing on feminist analyses of the household as a key site in socio-economic transformation and the reproduction of financialized capitalism. We propose four methodological moves. First, we dismantle conventional boundarie…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Debt (6 works) · Finance (6 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (6 works) · Austerity (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (5 works)