Social Movements and the Politics of Debt

Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents

Christoph Sorg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-18628-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Protest and Social Movements
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-041-18628-2 / 1041186282
ISBN-13	978-1-041-18628-1 / 9781041186281
Zustand	Neuware