The Politics of Debt and Europe’s Relations with the ‘South’ / / Stefan Nygard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Nygard, Stefan,
• MitwirkendeR: Agridopoulos, Aristotelis,; Bissonnette, Jean François,; Forti, Simona,; Karagiannis, Nathalie,; Nedimović, Svjetlana,; Nygård, Stefan,; Rieder, Maria,; Rosich, Gerard,; Siapera, Eugenia,; Stråth, Bo,; Wagner, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Annual of European and Global Studies : AEGS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Analyses different understandings of debt and credit throughout European history in a global contextCombines a discussion of the multi-layered European and global North-South divide with an effort to retrieve alternatives to the dominant divisive use of debt as staking out claims against another party.Explores the consequences of the erasure of historical temporality in the recent period of globalisation" and "individualisation" as well as new registers for political uses of the past under current conditions.Draws on socio-political, moral-philosophical and literary-artistic analyses, tracing the genealogy of debt through European history.Focusing on Europe in a global context to offer critical, historical and philosophical perspectives on debt and guiltDebt enables individuals and collectives to function and to expand their space of manoeuvre, but it also creates hierarchies and possibilities for domination. By drawing on analyses in political philosophy, political science, sociology, history, social theory and media studies, the essays in this collection discover new and forgotten ways of thinking about debt and North-South relations. They combine a discussion of the European and global North-South divide with an effort to retrieve alternatives to the dominant divisive uses of debt in staking out claims against someone else and as a means of social control."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Schemas -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Two Faces of Debt -- Part I. Debt And Social Theory -- 2. The Indebted Subject and Social Transformations: The Possibility of Resistance and Empowerment -- 3. Debt, Democracy and the Pharmacology of Money -- Part II. Greece And Germany As Europe’S South And North -- 4. Europe’s Debt to Refugees -- 5. Causes, Critique and Blame: A Political Discourse Analysis of the Crisis and Blame Discourse of German and Greek Intellectuals -- 6. The Tragedy of Recognition: Debt, Guilt and Political Action -- 7. The Soul of Europe: Two Different Ways of Thinking Germany’s Debt to Greek Culture -- Part III. The Local, The Regional And The Global ‘South’ -- 8. The ‘South’ as a Moving Target: Europe’s Debt to the Former Colonies -- 9. Debating the South in Unified Italy -- 10. Economic Theory as Morality: Europe’s and the World’s North and South -- Part IV. Debt And The Politics Of History -- 11. Europe’s Debt Denied: Reflections on 1989 and the Loss of Yugoslav Experience of Direct Democracy -- 12. The Use of the Past under Conditions of Disorientation and Instability: The Spanish–Catalan Political Conflict -- Index