Austerity as Public Mood

Zusatztext

<span><span>Austerity as Public Mood</span><span> 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.</span></span><br><span></span><br><span><span>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.</span></span>

Autorenportrait

<span>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</span><span>Artistic Lives</span><span> (2013), and is a co-author of</span><span>Go Home: The politics of Immigration Controversies</span><span>(2017) and the forthcoming</span><span>Media, War and the Making of Migrants.</span><span> She is a member of the editorial collective of</span><span>Soundings.</span>

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