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
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2022, [2022]
Series:Protest and Social Movements
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
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