Trailer: Debtfare States

Furthering the focus on academic trailers, this post features Susanne Soederberg’s Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Distribution and Surplus Population.

The book proposes an original notion to what is called debtfarism to capture new configurations of class-based power that have extended and deepened the privatisation of the commons through monetised relations including the dependence on debt for workers under neoliberalism.

Author: Susanne Soederberg

Susanne Soederberg is a Professor of Global Political Economy in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario Canada. In addition to Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Capitalism (2021), Dr Soederberg has authored several books, including two award-winning monographs, Corporate Power in Contemporary Capitalism (2010) and Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry (2014) – now fully open access!

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