دانلود کتاب Austerity as Public Mood: Social Anxieties and Social Struggles

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Austerity as Public Mood
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Tightening Our Belts
Guilt and Nostalgia
What Is a ‘Public Mood’?
Can Austerity Function as a Public Mood?
1 Austerity and the Appeal of the Past
Why Austerity Isn’t Just about Economics
Austerity, Precarisation and Time
Austerity Melancholia
Austerity, Neo-Communitarianism and Socially Conservative Values
Who Belongs in Austerity Britain?
Strivers versus Skivers: Austerity and Work
Using an Idealised Past to Invalidate the Present
Conclusion: Nostalgia as Subverted Desires for a Better World?
2 Authoritarian Populism, Traditionalism and Austerity
Traditionalism
Authoritarian Populism
New Labour and the Transformation of Traditionalism and Authoritarian Populism
Are ‘Traditionalism’ and ‘Authoritarian Populism’ Still Relevant as Concepts?
Conclusion: Hall’s Work as an Imaginative Resource
3 The Mediatisation of Austerity and the Case of Benefits Street
Respectability
Meritocracy and the Individualisation of Success and Failure
Reality Television as the Scene for Divisive Politics
Controversies
Trolling or Pro-Austerity Common Sense?
Bad Habits and Reckless Lifestyles
Bad Parenting
Gendered, Classed Personal Attacks
Schadenfreude
Newsjacking and Other Counter-Responses
Counter-Pleasures
Developments since Benefits Street: Poverty Porn as a Controversial and Successful Genre
Conclusion: Twitter as a Site for Affirming or Challenging Austerity
4 Immigration, Austerity and the Welfare State
The Integration of Borders into the Welfare State
Metaphors of Home and the Welfare State
‘Taking Back Control’
Connecting Anti-Austerity and Migrants’ Rights Campaigns
Conclusion: Solidarity as an Imaginative Response to Xenophobia
5 Austere Creativity, Community and Impasses around the Welfare State
Neoliberal Creativity
Anti-Austerity Campaigns in Lewisham
A ‘Big Society’ Solution for Libraries
Austere Creativity and the Fate of New Cross Library
Conclusion: Creativity against Austerity?
6 Trade Union Activism after the 2010 Student Protests
Accounts of the Decline of Unions and the Need for Another Approach
Trade Unionism in the Aftermath of the Student Movement
Organisers Instead of Heroes
Democratic Rituals and Mis-Recognitions of Class
Precarisation and Politicisation
Workplace Politics versus the Moralisation of Work
Conclusion: Shifting the Public Mood in the Workplace?
7 Spaces of Solidarity
After the Square
You Are Not a Loan: The Debt Collective
Countering Isolation and Shame: The Case of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH)
Social Housing, Not Social Cleansing: Focus E15
Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Interdependency and Care
Conclusion: From Austerity to Brexit and Trump, and the Politics of the ‘Ordinary’
Right Populism and ‘Ordinary People’
Can the Public Mood Be Shifted?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author