Croatia has experienced a marked boom in household debt in the 2000s. Much of this
lending took high-risk and predatory forms that transferred significant risks to debtors, which …

We establish features of political opportunity structures of Croatia and Serbia as parameters
that help explain the strategies pursued by housing and anti-debt social movements in the …

This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and
Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities …

In the last decade, urban social movements that emerged in the Yugoslav successor states
decided to form political platforms to enter the institutional arena, often after years of …

This Special Feature is the first regional and holistic comparative study of Swiss franc (CHF)
mortgages in Eastern Europe from the mid-2000s up to now. We examine this form of …

The introduction opens by identifying issues in the scholarship on the financialization of
households that the collection seeks to rectify: atheoretical and unclear conceptualizations …

This paper traces the Croatian Swiss franc loans crisis and debtors' movement in the context
of the wider politics of housing finance after the 2000s credit and housing boom. The …

Initially understood as a narrowly economic process of financial expansion, the concept of
financialization has expanded to describe the increasing power of financial actors, practices …

This chapter engages with specific ways in which the financialization of household
economies in (semi-) peripheral settings taps into established familial values and practices …

The issue of household financialisation has gained increased academic and institutional
interest over the past few decades, especially in the context of the recent global economic …