Social Movements and the Politics of Debt : Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents

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...

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Main Author Sorg, Christoph
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2022
SeriesProtest and Social Movements
Subjects
Book Industry Communication
contentious politics
Debt
Economics
Economics, finance, business & management
financialization
Political Economy
Political Science
Public Policy
Social classes
Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Social groups
social movements
Social problems and social welfare in general
Social Science
Social Services & Welfare
Social services & welfare, criminology
Social welfare & social services
Society & culture: general
Society & social sciences
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:MODID-d66f183fd58:Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:9789048553273
904855327X
9463720855
9789463720854
DOI:10.5117/9789463720854