Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-367-08537-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture

In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of ‘austerity economics’ across many nations. Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity examines how austerity has impacted upon cultural politics in relation to understanding how established power is both maintained and challenged.

The book begins by detailing the meaning of cultural politics before exploring themes such as media discourse, austerity narratives, class, cultural hegemony/government policymaking, social movements and the European Union, and left responses to austerity. It also includes chapters tracing cultural politics in Spain, with a focus on anti-austerity movements and the relationship between austerity and Spanish football.

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity assesses the impact of a range of cultural/political forms concerning the dynamics of society and relations of power during times of crisis. As such, it will appeal to scholars of culture, media, politics, philosophy, sociology and social psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors

Preface by David Berry

- Cultural politics, austerity and responses
David Berry

- Unmasking the golem: English riots, media and the social psychology of madness
Glen Parkinson

- Remembrance and the working class soldier hero in austerity Britain
Maggie Andrews

- ‘We have to keep going, whatever happens’: the austerity narratives of Girls, Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey
Sallie McNamara

- Managing the social impacts of austerity Britain: the cultural politics of neo-liberal ‘nudging’
Emma L. Briant and Steven Harkins

- Class and cultural colonization in the era of austerity: the dialectics of identity and de-subordination
Mark Hayes

- The European Union project, social movements and alienation
David Berry

- Cultural politics anti-austerity movements in Spain: towards a comprehensive strategy of change
Joan Pedro

- The sweet smell of success: Spanish football as the antidote to austerity since 2008
Jim O'Brien

- Orwell's progeny: the British left in an age of austerity
Philip Bounds

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Berry is Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at Southampton Solent University, UK, and the author of The Romanian Mass Media and Cultural Development and Journalism, Ethics and Society. He is the co-author of Public Policy and Media Organizations, the co-editor of Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy and British Marxism and Cultural Studies: Essays on a living tradition, and the editor of Ethics and Media Culture: Representations and Practices and Revisiting the Frankfurt School: Essays on Media, Culture and Theory.