Households and Financialization in Europe: Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries

0545932 - SOÚ 2022 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Hoření Samec, Tomáš
“For the sake of consumer protection”: Blending paternalism and neoliberalism in the discursive financialization of households in the Czech Republic.
Households and Financialization in Europe: Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021 - (Mikuš, M.; Rodik, P.), s. 148-168. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. ISBN 978-0367-46455-4
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA20-04863S
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : financialization of households * debt * discourse analysis
OECD category: Sociology

This chapter shows how public institutions in the Czech Republic blend paternalistic and neoliberal arguments and appeals, thereby engendering a specific mode of discursive household financialization. Focusing on discursive artefacts (websites and parliament speeches) on household finance produced by public institutions (the Czech National Bank, the Ministry of Finance) and representatives of political parties, the chapter develops two arguments. The first argument explores modes of construction of various subject categories that figure in this discourse: households, families, individuals, consumers and citizens. The second argument delves deeper into the normative content of this discursive production and relates it to the semi-peripheral character of the Czech economy and financial system and its structural and legal characteristics.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322536