Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Austerity as Public Mood: Social Anxieties and Social Struggles

Kirsten Forkert

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 192

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International

Release: September 16, 2017

ISBN: 1783481935

ISBN 13: 9781783481934

Austerity as Public Mood: Social Anxieties and Social Struggles

Kirsten Forkert

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 192

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International

Release: September 16, 2017

ISBN: 1783481935

ISBN 13: 9781783481934

More books from Kirsten Forkert

Artistic Lives

Go Home!: Immigration Controversies and Performative Politics

How media and conflicts make migrants

Go Home?: The politics of immigration controversies

Rate this book!

Write a review?