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Affective Polarisation - Social Inequality in the UK after Austerity, Brexit and COVID-19: Harvey Butterfield, Paolo... Affective Polarisation - Social Inequality in the UK after Austerity, Brexit and COVID-19
Harvey Butterfield, Paolo Chiocchetti, Kirsten Forkert, Ifor Ap Glyn, Ellen GrĂźnkemeier, …
R2,203 Discovery Miles 22 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Inequality is an ever-present danger in our society. This important book addresses the crucial nexus between the lived experience of inequality and how it shapes political responses. With contributors from the UK and Continental Europe, the book compiles case studies with theoretically informed discussions of the relationship between affective polarisation, social inequality and the fall-out from Brexit and COVID-19. Using a broad concept of social inequality, the book incorporates aspects of economy and society, language and emotion culture as well as interviews and film in historical and transnational perspective. The contributors offer a powerful examination of the ways in which the politics of the UK and the lived experiences of its residents have been reframed in the first decades of the 21st century.

Go Home? - The Politics of Immigration Controversies (Hardcover): Hannah Jones, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Gargi Bhattacharyya, William... Go Home? - The Politics of Immigration Controversies (Hardcover)
Hannah Jones, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Gargi Bhattacharyya, William Davies, Sukhwant Dhaliwal, …
R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next. The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate toughness on immigration. The authors set out to explore the effects of such performances: on policy, on public debate, on pro-migrant and anti-racist activism, and on the everyday lives of people in Britain. This book presents their findings, and provides insights into the practice of conducting research on such a charged and sensitive topic. -- .

Austerity as Public Mood - Social Anxieties and Social Struggles (Hardcover): Kirsten Forkert Austerity as Public Mood - Social Anxieties and Social Struggles (Hardcover)
Kirsten Forkert
R3,050 Discovery Miles 30 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Contested Britain - Brexit, Austerity and Agency (Hardcover): Paul Carmichael, Derek Birrell, Klaus Stolz, Hugh MacKay, Allan... Contested Britain - Brexit, Austerity and Agency (Hardcover)
Paul Carmichael, Derek Birrell, Klaus Stolz, Hugh MacKay, Allan Cochrane, …
R2,064 Discovery Miles 20 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and consequences of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics in Britain. Bringing together case studies and perspectives from an array of international researchers across the social sciences, it dissects the ways that the UK has become increasingly contested with profound differences of geography, generation, gender, 'race' and class, and considers agency as a key concept to understand the links between austerity and Brexit.

How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants (Hardcover): Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Janna Graham How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants (Hardcover)
Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Janna Graham
R2,065 Discovery Miles 20 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Has 'migrant' become an unshakeable identity for some people? How does this happen and what role does the media play in classifying individuals as 'migrants' rather than people? This volume denaturalises the idea of the 'migrant', pointing instead to the array of systems and processes that force this identity on individuals, shaping their interactions with the state and with others. Drawing on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the United Kingdom and Italy, the authors examine how media representations construct global conflicts in a climate of changing media habits, widespread mistrust, and fake news. How media and conflicts make migrants argues that listening to those on the sharpest end of the immigration system can provide much-needed perspective on global conflicts and inequalities. In challenging the conventional expectation for immigrants to tell sad stories about their migration journey, the book explores experiences of discrimination as well as acts of resistance. Interludes, interspersed between chapters, explore these issues through songs, jokes and images. Offering an essential account of the interplay between a climate of diversifying but distrustful media use and uncertainty about the shape of global politics, this volume argues that not only is the world itself changing rapidly, but also how people learn about the world. Understanding attitudes to migrants and other apparently 'local' political concerns demands a step back to consider this unstable global context of (mis)understanding. -- .

How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants (Paperback): Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Janna Graham How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants (Paperback)
Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Janna Graham
R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the "European refugee crisis", and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy. It examines how global conflict has been constructed in both countries through media representations - in a climate of changing media habits, widespread mistrust, and fake news. In so doing, it examines the role played by historical amnesia about legacies of imperialism - and how this leads to a disavowal of responsibility for the causes why people flee their countries. The book explores how this understanding in turn shapes institutional and popular responses in receiving countries, ranging from hostility-such as the framing of refugees by politicians, as 'economic migrants' who are abusing the asylum system; to solidarity initiatives. Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of "migrantification" - in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society. In challenging the conventional expectation for immigrants to tell stories about their migration journey, the book explores experiences of discrimination as well as acts of resistance. It argues that listening to those on the sharpest end of the immigration system can provide much-needed perspective on global conflicts and inequalities which challenges common Eurocentric misconceptions. Interludes, interspersed between chapters, explore these issues in another way through songs, jokes and images. -- .

Go Home? - The Politics of Immigration Controversies (Paperback): Hannah Jones, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Gargi Bhattacharyya, William... Go Home? - The Politics of Immigration Controversies (Paperback)
Hannah Jones, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Gargi Bhattacharyya, William Davies, Sukhwant Dhaliwal, …
R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next. The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate toughness on immigration. The authors set out to explore the effects of such performances: on policy, on public debate, on pro-migrant and anti-racist activism, and on the everyday lives of people in Britain. This book presents their findings, and provides insights into the practice of conducting research on such a charged and sensitive topic. -- .

Contested Britain - Brexit, Austerity and Agency (Paperback): Paul Carmichael, Derek Birrell, Klaus Stolz, Hugh MacKay, Allan... Contested Britain - Brexit, Austerity and Agency (Paperback)
Paul Carmichael, Derek Birrell, Klaus Stolz, Hugh MacKay, Allan Cochrane, …
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and consequences of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics in Britain. Bringing together case studies and perspectives from an array of international researchers across the social sciences, it dissects the ways that the UK has become increasingly contested with profound differences of geography, generation, gender, 'race' and class, and considers agency as a key concept to understand the links between austerity and Brexit.

Austerity as Public Mood - Social Anxieties and Social Struggles (Paperback): Kirsten Forkert Austerity as Public Mood - Social Anxieties and Social Struggles (Paperback)
Kirsten Forkert
R1,070 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R682 (64%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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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