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

Author:   Christoph Sorg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781041186281


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
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Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents


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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.

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Author:   Christoph Sorg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781041186281


ISBN 10:   1041186282
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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