Dr Joe Deville

Senior Lecturer

Research Overview

Joe Deville is a Senior Lecturer based jointly in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology and the Department of Sociology. His research interests include:

The everyday, embodied life of debt, credit and finance
Informational mobility, methods of algorithmic prediction, futures of credit scoring
Open Access and the politics of academic knowledge production
Disaster preparedness and the production/materialisation of risk
Science and technology studies, speculative sociology, non-representational theory
Digital methods

Twitter: @joe_dev

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A key area of focus has been the interactions between defaulting debtor and debt collector, which was the subject of my first book Lived Economies of Default, published by Routledge in 2015.

There and in other related publications, I have sought to simultaneously explore the intimate dimensions of financialised life and their encounter with organisational expertise. In doing so, I have developed an economic sociology informed by approaches from science and technology studies, speculative philosophy and non-representational theory.

As an editor of the new Open Access book publisher Mattering Press, I also have a keen interest in the practical politics of academic knowledge production, while my previous work at Goldsmiths on the ERC funded 'Organising Disaster' project has contributed to an interest in how disaster preparedness practices can become implicated in the production of risk.

I am a co-director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, an Associate of the Data Science Institute, the Institute for Social Futures, and a member of both the Centre for Science Studies and the Centre for Technological Futures.

I have also co-edited two books: Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations, published by Mattering Press in 2016, and Markets and the Arts of Attachment, published by Routledge in 2017.

PhD Supervision Interests

I am looking to supervise students interested in engaging critically with some of the following empirical areas: household economies, everyday indebtedness, credit scoring/data proliferation/informational mobilities, disaster/disaster preparedness, infrastructures of scholarly communication. Theoretically and methodologically I draw influences from fields including science and technology studies, affect theory, economic sociology, and sociologies of the digital.

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Selected Publications

Lived economies of default: consumer credit, debt collection, and the capture of affect
Deville, J. 2015 London : Routledge. 212 p. ISBN: 9780415622509.
Book

Consumer credit default and collections: the shifting ontologies of market attachment
Deville, J. 2014 In: Consumption, Markets and Culture. 17, 5, p. 468-490. 23 p.
Journal article

Debtor publics: tracking the participatory politics of consumer credit
Deville, J. 01/2016 In: Consumption, Markets and Culture. 19, 1, p. 38-55. 18 p.
Journal article

Concrete governmentality: shelters and the transformations of preparedness
Deville, J., Guggenheim, M., Hrdličková, Z. 06/2014 In: The Sociological Review. 62, Supp. S1, p. 183-210. 18 p.
Journal article

ISF: Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs
01/11/2019 → 31/10/2022
Research

New Platforms for Open Access Book Distribution
01/04/2018 → 30/06/2018
Research

Graphic Futures
17/10/2017 → 30/06/2018
Research

Digital Technologies of Debt Resilience
03/02/2014 → 03/06/2014
Other

Organising Disaster: Civil Protection and the Population
01/01/2011 → 30/06/2015
Other

ESRC Studentship PTA-031–2006–00457
01/07/2009 → 01/07/2012
Other

“Scaling Small: COPIM and the Infrastructural Politics of Open Access Book Publishing”, OASPA’s 11th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Invited talk

“Quality Assurance and Peer Review”, Critical Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communication”
Invited talk

“The Emotional Work of Debt Collection”, Collegium Generale: Schuld und Schulden
Invited talk

“Open Access Publishing and the Future of the University”, Radical Open Access II
Invited talk

“Comparing Comparativisms: A Comparative Analysis of Practising Comparison’s Comparisons” Doing Comparison
Invited talk

‘Emergent domestic financial practices’ / ‘Building the infrastructure of domestic finance’. Sessions at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Conference
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