'You are not a loan': contentious debt politics since the North Atlantic Financial Crisis

Debt has constituted a pivotal theme of both older and more recent mobilizations and critical public debate. While academia has started new discussions about debt relations, literature on resistance against debt is relatively scarce and mostly focuses on the Global South before the North Atlantic Financial Crisis. The aim of this article is to contribute to filling this gap by studying debt-centered movements in recent anti-austerity politics. The article will argue that the 2007/2008 financial crisis has exacerbated debt-related grievances in the Global North to a degree already common across the Global South. I will argue that and show how in response to this spillover established debt abolition networks decided to now also work on Northern debt, while new movement networks for debt justice emerged from within and as a constitutive part of the 2010/2011 anti-austerity and pro-democracy protests.