A World to Win: Housing and Class Struggle w/ Susanne Soederberg
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week Grace talks to Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Political Economy in Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada, about her book Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism. They discuss the class roots of the global housing crisis and the emergence of resistance to the cycle of debt, eviction, and homelessness in some of Europe’s major cities.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of A World To Win. I'm Grace Blakely bringing you your weekly |
| 0:16.8 | dose of socialist news theory and action from around the world. This week I'm talking |
| 0:21.3 | to Suzanne Soderbergh and she is a professor of political economy in global development studies |
| 0:26.7 | at Queens University Canada and we're talking about her book Urban Displacements, |
| 0:31.1 | Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism. Now the book is about the kind of class |
| 0:37.1 | underpinnings of the housing and displacement crisis that we're seeing all over the world |
| 0:41.7 | with a particular focus on renters and Suzanne looks at this kind of cycle of rising debt, |
| 0:48.9 | eviction and homelessness that characterizes just the pervasive insecurity experienced by renters |
| 0:55.4 | who are also often in secure jobs who are experiencing debt and or a load of other kinds of |
| 1:02.5 | sources of insecurity and she looks at the way in which that is kind of functional to capital |
| 1:07.9 | accumulation. Also the direct route through which the wealthy are basically extracting resources |
| 1:14.6 | from this group of people and we also talk a lot about the opportunities for resistance to this |
| 1:20.7 | model. So you can listen to the hour long episode of the show if you subscribe to our Patreon |
| 1:27.0 | account. I would really recommend that you do that. You can also find Suzanne social media in |
| 1:33.1 | the description and a link to purchasing her book. Please also consider sharing this episode on |
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| 1:53.8 | slash a world to win pod. So now here is Suzanne Soderbergh and I really hope that you guys |
| 1:59.8 | enjoy this fascinating episode. Hello and welcome to a world to win. I'm here with Suzanne Soderbergh |
| 2:11.9 | and we are going to talk today about her brilliant book urban displacements governing surplus |
| 2:17.8 | and survival in global capitalism and actually about the housing crisis and the global movement |
| 2:25.0 | to organize tenants more generally and how these are all linked into processes such as |
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