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Austerity as Public Mood - Social Anxieties and Social Struggles (Paperback)
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Austerity as Public Mood - Social Anxieties and Social Struggles (Paperback)
Series: Radical Cultural Studies
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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.
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