Kirsten Forkert

Austerity as Public Mood (eBook, PDF)

Social Anxieties and Social Struggles

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216235026
• Artikelnr.: 74841496

Autorenporträt

A researcher, teacher and activist, Kirsten Forkert is based in the School of Media at BCU in Birmingham, where she is Associate Director of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. She is the author of Artistic Lives (2013), and is a co-author of Go Home: The politics of Immigration Controversies (2017) and the forthcoming Media, War and the Making of Migrants. She is a member of the editorial collective of Soundings.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tightening Our Belts
Chapter 1: Austerity and the Appeal of the Past
Chapter 2: Authoritarian Populism, Traditionalism and Austerity
Chapter 3: The Mediatisation of Austerity and the Case of Benefits Street
Chapter 4: Immigration, Austerity and the Welfare State
Chapter 5: Austere creativity, community and impasses around the welfare state
Chapter 6: Trade Union Activism after the 2010 Student Protests
Chapter 7: Spaces of Solidarity
Conclusion: From Austerity to Brexit and Trump, and the Politics of the "Ordinary"