Worrying the right amount: intimate relationships and the emotional work of pursuing financial literacy together
This paper explores how expectations of financial literacy are negotiated within intimate relationships. Institutional normative discourses of managing money and finance well urge individuals to cultivate identifiable and quantifiable cognitive competences in pursuit of freedom from money worries. I...
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2024
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| description | This paper explores how expectations of financial literacy are negotiated within intimate relationships. Institutional normative discourses of managing money and finance well urge individuals to cultivate identifiable and quantifiable cognitive competences in pursuit of freedom from money worries. In the present paper, I contrast these expectations with financial literacy norms as construed in everyday economic lives. While institutions’ individualised standards of financial literacy have waxed and waned in influence in recent decades, financial literacy expectations within relationships can have far-reaching effects in everyday economic lives. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Bristol, UK, I trace how intimate partners, relatives, friends, and housemates who manage money together pursue financial literacy in terms of an ‘optimal’ level of worrying about money. Rather than the absence of money worries, this takes the form of ‘worrying about worrying’ about money, a type of emotional work which involves the continuous (and unequally shared) scrutiny and calibration of worrying. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:701c32bc-e0c8-4632-9908-a6e760ae88b22024-12-04T11:16:26ZWorrying the right amount: intimate relationships and the emotional work of pursuing financial literacy togetherJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:701c32bc-e0c8-4632-9908-a6e760ae88b2EnglishSymplectic ElementsTaylor and Francis Group2024Plyushteva, AThis paper explores how expectations of financial literacy are negotiated within intimate relationships. Institutional normative discourses of managing money and finance well urge individuals to cultivate identifiable and quantifiable cognitive competences in pursuit of freedom from money worries. In the present paper, I contrast these expectations with financial literacy norms as construed in everyday economic lives. While institutions’ individualised standards of financial literacy have waxed and waned in influence in recent decades, financial literacy expectations within relationships can have far-reaching effects in everyday economic lives. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Bristol, UK, I trace how intimate partners, relatives, friends, and housemates who manage money together pursue financial literacy in terms of an ‘optimal’ level of worrying about money. Rather than the absence of money worries, this takes the form of ‘worrying about worrying’ about money, a type of emotional work which involves the continuous (and unequally shared) scrutiny and calibration of worrying. |
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