Contentious Debt Politics since the Southern Debt Crisis

Chapter 4 traces the history of transnational movements and campaigns against what they termed “odious” and “illegitimate” debt in the Global South from the 1970s to the 2000s, which constitute a direct reaction to the debt crises in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of South and Southeast Asia. The chapter introduces some of the actors, structural constellations, repertoires, and discourses which have reappeared in the recent crisis.