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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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Protest and social movements ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Selected Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 D.R.E.A.M. ("Debt Rules Everything around Me")
- Introduction
- The Southern Origins of Recent Contentious Debt Politics
- Social Movement Studies versus Critical Political Economy
- Contentious Debt Politics and How to Study Them
- The Outline of This Book
- The Argument of the Book
- 2 Theories of Financialization and Social Movements
- Some Preliminary Thoughts on Financialization
- (Political-)Economic Approaches: Neo- and Post-Keynesianism
- Varieties of Marxist Thought
- Historical Sociology
- World-systems Approach
- Markets, Networks, Culture
- Social Movement Studies
- Social Movement Studies' Traditional Agenda
- New Developments: Social Movement as Process
- Structure versus Movement
- 3 The Financialization of Capitalism
- Finance and Debt under Capitalism
- The Recent Financialization of Capitalism
- Financialized Actors and Institutions
- 4 Contentious Debt Politics since the Southern Debt Crisis
- Introduction
- From the "IMF Riots" to the Emergence of Transnational Advocacy Networks and Jubilee 2000
- A Class of Debtors in and for Itself? Grievances and Cleavages of Debt
- Political Opportunities and Threats
- Mobilizing Structures
- Identity, Knowledge, Framing
- Repertoires of Action
- Some Tentative Conclusions: Two Approaches to Contentious Debt Politics at the Eve of the NAFC?
- 5 Responding to the Multiple Crises of Financialized Capitalism
- Introduction
- From Financial to Economic Crisis
- From Financial-Economic to Political and Social Crisis
- From Political and Social Crisis to Crisis of Legitimacy
- The Debt Politics Movement Reacts to Financial Crisis and Anti-austerity Protests
- Moving from Crisis to Resistance
- 6 Debtors' Clubs and Debtors' Unions
- A New Cycle of Contention: The Emergence of New Anti-austerity Movements
- New Movement Organizations, Transnational Networks, and Movement Parties
- Excursion: The Illustrative Case of Blockupy
- From Anti-austerity to New Contentious Debt Politics
- Yes ICAN: The International Citizen Debt Audit
- Old and New Organizational Repertoires
- By Way of Conclusion: A Virtuous Mutual Appropriation Towards a Debtors' Cartel
- 7 Who Owes Whom? Deconstructing Debt Fetishism
- Introduction
- Eurodad: Everything Development Finance
- CADTM: The Debt System
- ICAN: Putting the Citizen in Citizen Debt Audit
- Each One Teach One: Putting the Creditors and the System into the Limelight
- What Is to Be Done? And Who's Gonna Do It?
- 8 Collective Debtor Action and Prefigurative Debt Politics
- Introduction
- Lobbying against Vulture Funds for a New International Financial Architecture
- Towards an Athens Club: The Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt
- The Truth Committee's Preliminary Report and the Ensuing Greek Tragedy
- The People Want the Overthrow of the Regime's Debt: Tunisia's Post-revolutionary Debt Audit
- Prefiguring a Democratic Finance: Municipal Audits, People's Bailout, and Beyond
- Different Ways of Engaging Debt
- 9 Towards a More Democratic Debt Politics?
- Introduction
- Lineages of Recent Contentious Debt Politics
- Three Ways of Tackling the Debt Problematique
- Meditations on a Theory of Contentious Debt Politics
- Debtors of the World, Unite!
- Bibliography
- Referenced Primary Sources
- Secondary Literature
- Index