Social Movements and the Politics of Debt

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Social Movements and the Politics of Debt is written by Christoph Sorg and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040792235 (ISBN 10) and 9781040792230 (ISBN 13).

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.