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Austerity as public mood : social anxieties and social struggles
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Title
Austerity as public mood : social anxieties and social struggles / Kirsten Forkert.
ISBN
9781783481934
1783481935
Publication
London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017
Physical Description
x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
Explores how politicians and the press in the UK mobilise support for 'austerity' through appealing to socially conservative conceptions of work and community. It examines the techniques of anti-austerity social movements in challenging the prevailing mood of guilt, nostalgia, and resentment and how these may offer radical alternatives for social change.
Other formats
Online version: Forkert, Kirsten, author. Austerity as public mood Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 07, 2018
Series
Radical Cultural Studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: tightening our belts
Austerity and the appeal of the past
Authoritarian populism, traditionalism and austerity
The mediatisation of austerity and the case of benefits street
Immigration, austerity and the welfare state
Austere creativity, community and impasses around the welfare state
Trade union activism after the 2010 student protests
Spaces of solidarity
Conclusion: towards a politics of interdependency and care
Conclusion: from austerity to brexit and Trump, and the politics of the "ordinary"
Right populism and "ordinary people"
Can the public mood be shifted?.
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