Bridging governmentality and economization
Temporality as a Financialization Device
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2181983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Plummer (0000-0003-0331-0349, Columbia University, corresponding author), Samantha S Plummer |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-51 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cultural Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-0350 • E-ISSN: 1753-0369 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17530350.2024.2370278 |
| OpenAlex | W4402870063 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
Reflecting and reinforcing the financialization of everyday life, non-profit social service organizations, the primary deliverers of benefits and services in the US, are increasingly incorporating financial education and empowerment into their service repertoires. In this article, I examine and compare how financial educators in two organizations that target different populations/problems – women in (economic) transition and chronically/intergenerationally poor people – give financial advice to their clients. I draw a parallel between what Foucault calls the ‘repressive hypothesis’ and claims by personal finance experts and educators that we are silent about money. I suggest that these claims amount to a ‘money repressive hypothesis’ that gives experts what I call an ‘advisor’s benefit’: the appearance of being freed from silence about money and thus able to liberate others from silence and steer them toward financial wellness. I show that financial educators perform this benefit through temporal frames – meaningful ways of intersubjectively organizing experience in reference to time, that invite different levels and forms of attention to the past, present, and future – of their clients’ problems. Bridging literatures on governmentality and economization, I contend that these temporal frames are disciplinary financialization devices that act in connection with sociocultural constructions of populations/problems to assemble financial subjectivities
Economics · Epistemology · Financialization · Governmentality · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporality · Economic Theory and Policy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |