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.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
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
