1st Edition
Social Movements and the Politics of Debt Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents
By Christoph Sorg
Copyright 2022
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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,... Read more
1. D.R.E.A.M. (debt rules everything around me), 2. Theories of financialization and social movements, 3. The financialization of capitalism, 4. Contentious debt politics since the Southern Debt Crisis, 5. Responding to the multiple crises of financialized capitalism, 6. Debtors' clubs and debtors' unions, 7. Who owes whom? Deconstructing debt fetishism, 8. Collective debtor action and prefigurative debt politics, 9. Towards a more democratic debt politics?, Bibliography, Index, Cover blurb, Cover image, Chapter abstracts, Biography
Biography
Christoph Sorg is a researcher in political economy, labor sociology and social movement studies with a PhD from Humboldt University. For this book he conducted three years of field work in Tunisia, Egypt, the US and several European countries.
