Austerity as public mood : social anxieties and social struggles / Kirsten Forkert.

Author
Forkert, Kirsten [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
x, 217 pages ; 24 cm

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    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-211) 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?
    ISBN
    • 9781783481934 ((hardcover))
    • 1783481935 ((hardcover))
    • 9781783481941 ((paperback))
    • 1783481943 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2017037149
    OCLC
    957504268
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