Description
| Product ID: | 9781783481941 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Austerity as Public Mood |
| Subtitle: | Social Anxieties and Social Struggles |
| Authors: | Author: Kirsten Forkert |
| Page Count: | 228 |
| Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, Social discrimination and social justice, Ethnic studies, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Human geography, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic studies, Social welfare & social services, Central government policies, Human geography, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Explores how UK politicians and the press 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. Austerity as Public Mood explores how politicians and the media mobilise nostalgic and socially conservative ideas of work and community in order to justify cuts to public services and create divisions between the deserving and undeserving. It examines the powerful appeal of these concepts as part of a wider public mood marked by guilt, nostalgia and resentment – particularly around the inequalities produced by global capitalism and changes to the nature of work. In doing so, the book engages with urgent questions about the contemporary political climate. Focusing on the UK, it challenges accounts of neoliberalism which frame it as primarily an individualising force and localist definitions of community as mitigating its damaging effects. Finally, it explores how resistance to austerity can challenge these tendencies by offering a politics of solidarity and hope, and a forum for experimentation with alternative forms of collectivity. |
| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-02-04 |
