Social Movements and the Politics of Debt
Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Debt, financialization, contentious politics, social movementsDOI
10.5117/9789463720854ISBN
9789463720854, 9789048553273Publisher
Amsterdam University PressPublisher website
https://www.aup.nl/Publication date and place
Amsterdam, 2022Grantor
Series
Protest and Social Movements, 26Classification
Social welfare & social services
Political economy
Social classes