The Politics of Debt and Europe’s Relations with the ‘South’

Analyses different understandings of debt and credit throughout European history in a global context Combines 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 partyExplores 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 curre