Joe Deville

Joe Deville is a Lecturer based jointly in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology and the Department of Sociology at the University of Lancaster. He is also co-founder of the Charisma Network and an editor of the Open Access book publisher, Mattering Press. He has published widely on subjects ranging from consumer credit lending and the everyday life of debt default, to the technologies and practices of the debt collection industry, to the material politics of disaster preparedness. His first monograph, Lived Economies of Default: Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect was published by Routledge in early 2015.