Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. List of Figures 9
4. Selected Abbreviations 11
5. Acknowledgments 13
6. 1 D.R.E.A.M. (“Debt Rules Everything around Me”)
7. Introduction 15
8. The Southern Origins of Recent Contentious Debt Politics 19
9. Social Movement Studies versus Critical Political Economy 21
10. Contentious Debt Politics and How to Study Them 24
11. The Outline of This Book 31
12. The Argument of the Book 34
13. 2 Theories of Financialization and Social Movements
14. Some Preliminary Thoughts on Financialization 37
15. (Political-)Economic Approaches: Neo- and Post-Keynesianism 40
16. Varieties of Marxist Thought 42
17. Historical Sociology – World-systems Approach 46
18. Markets, Networks, Culture 49
19. Social Movement Studies 51
20. Social Movement Studies’ Traditional Agenda 53
21. New Developments: Social Movement as Process 57
22. Structure versus Movement 59
23. 3 The Financialization of Capitalism
24. Finance and Debt under Capitalism 61
25. The Recent Financialization of Capitalism 64
26. Financialized Actors and Institutions 66
27. 4 Contentious Debt Politics since the Southern Debt Crisis
28. Introduction 71
29. From the “IMF Riots” to the Emergence of Transnational Advocacy Networks and Jubilee 2000 72
30. A Class of Debtors in and for Itself? Grievances and Cleavages of Debt 76
31. Political Opportunities and Threats 79
32. Mobilizing Structures 83
33. Identity, Knowledge, Framing 86
34. Repertoires of Action 89
35. Some Tentative Conclusions: Two Approaches to Contentious Debt Politics at the Eve of the NAFC? 91
36. 5 Responding to the Multiple Crises of Financialized Capitalism
37. Introduction 95
38. From Financial to Economic Crisis 97
39. From Financial-Economic to Political and Social Crisis 99
40. From Political and Social Crisis to Crisis of Legitimacy 102
41. The Debt Politics Movement Reacts to Financial Crisis and Anti-austerity Protests 105
42. Moving from Crisis to Resistance 113
43. 6 Debtors’ Clubs and Debtors’ Unions
44. A New Cycle of Contention: The Emergence of New Anti-austerity Movements 115
45. New Movement Organizations, Transnational Networks, and Movement Parties 119
46. Excursion: The Illustrative Case of Blockupy 124
47. From Anti-austerity to New Contentious Debt Politics 130
48. Yes ICAN: The International Citizen Debt Audit 137
49. Old and New Organizational Repertoires 141
50. By Way of Conclusion: A Virtuous Mutual Appropriation Towards a Debtors’ Cartel 155
51. 7 Who Owes Whom? Deconstructing Debt Fetishism
52. Introduction 159
53. Eurodad: Everything Development Finance 162
54. CADTM: The Debt System 167
55. ICAN: Putting the Citizen in Citizen Debt Audit 171
56. Each One Teach One: Putting the Creditors and the System into the Limelight 177
57. What Is to Be Done? And Who’s Gonna Do It? 180
58. 8 Collective Debtor Action and Prefigurative Debt Politics
59. Introduction 191
60. Lobbying against Vulture Funds for a New International Financial Architecture 193
61. Towards an Athens Club: The Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt 199
62. The Truth Committee’s Preliminary Report and the Ensuing Greek Tragedy 203
63. The People Want the Overthrow of the Regime’s Debt: Tunisia’s Post-revolutionary Debt Audit 208
64. Prefiguring a Democratic Finance: Municipal Audits, People’s Bailout, and Beyond 212
65. Different Ways of Engaging Debt 218
66. 9 Towards a More Democratic Debt Politics?
67. Introduction 221
68. Lineages of Recent Contentious Debt Politics 224
69. Three Ways of Tackling the Debt Problematique 231
70. Meditations on a Theory of Contentious Debt Politics 236
71. Debtors of the World, Unite! 240
72. Bibliography
73. Referenced Primary Sources 245
74. Secondary Literature 259
75. Index 281