Dr Joe Deville

Profile

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 both the Data Science Institute and the Institute for Social Futures, an editor at Journal of Cultural Economy.

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 the intersections between some of the following areas: economic sociology, science and technology studies, non-representational/affect theory, consumption/consumer behaviour, data proliferation/informational mobilities, digital methods, debt/credit/money, open access publishing