Social Movements and the Politics of Debt
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Social Movements and the Politics of Debt

Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents

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eBook - ePub

Social Movements and the Politics of Debt

Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents

About this book

It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them - have catapulted debt politics into the limelight of public debates. Profiting from years of fieldwork and an extensive amount of empirical data, Christoph Sorg traces recent contestations of debt from North Africa to Europe and the US. In doing so, he identifies the emergence of new transnational movement networks against the injustice of current debt politics, which struggle for more social and democratic ways of organizing debt within and between societies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Selected Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 D.R.E.A.M. (“Debt Rules Everything around Me”)
  10. 2 Theories of Financialization and Social Movements Some Preliminary Thoughts on Financialization
  11. 3 The Financialization of Capitalism Finance and Debt under Capitalism
  12. 4 Contentious Debt Politics since the Southern Debt Crisis From the “IMF Riots” to the Emergence of Transnational Advocacy
  13. 5 Responding to the Multiple Crises of Financialized Capitalism
  14. 6 Debtors’ Clubs and Debtors’ Unions A New Cycle of Contention: The Emergence of New Anti-austerity Movements
  15. 7 Who Owes Whom? Deconstructing Debt Fetishism
  16. 8 Collective Debtor Action and Prefigurative Debt Politics
  17. 9 Towards a More Democratic Debt Politics?
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index