Crisis, Austerity and Everyday Life - Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations

Informationen zum Autor Gargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, UK. Her published works include: Tales of Dark Skinned Women (1998); Race and Power (with Stephen Small and John Gabriel, 2001); Sexuality and Society (2002); Traffick (2005); Dangerous Brown Men (2008); and Ethnicities and Values (2009). Klappentext Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future, extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population. Zusammenfassung Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future! extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Is it too late to write a book about austerity? 2. The Primacy of the Economic and the Degradation of Politics 3. The Institutionalisation of Despair and Diminishing Expectations 4. Austerity and Extending the Racial State 5. Reproductive Labour in Austere Times 6. Conclusion: Surplus populations and austerity forever?

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gargi Bhattacharyya
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137411112
• ISBN: 978-1-137-41111-2
• Seiten: 235
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; B, Sociology, Social Inequality, Welfare State, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Poverty, Welfare, Social & ethical issues, Politics & government, Development Aid, Sociology, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Sociology: work & labour, Central / national / federal government policies, Development Studies, Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Politics of the Welfare State