Consumer Debt Crisis
In the course of your analysis, you may want to consider the following:
What constitutes this case as a crisis? How is this debt crisis classed, racialized, gendered, and otherwise prejudicial and/or predatory in its structure and consequences?
Who profits from the crisis and who are most adversely impacted in terms of exposure to risk, access to assistance, and adverse health impacts?
What type of discourse (explanatory genres, narrative representations) surround this debt crisis and what capitalist myths and notions of morality, human nature, the state and society does this discourse naturalize?
What is the role (potential or actual) of austerity, stimulus, relief, (corporate) welfare in structuring the crisis and its resolution? Engaging with these questions should function in service to your overall argument, in which you derive a generalizable political lesson from this particular case of debt-related crisis.
