Democracy of Affluence - Intellectuals Affluent Society in Britain, Italy, Us, 1958 1979

List of contents

1. Introduction: the transnational intellectual discourse of affluence 2. The political semiotisation of affluence 3. The democratisation of affluence I: acting on affluence 4. The democratisation of affluence II: governing affluence 5. The democratisation of affluence III: contesting affluence 6. The political discourse of affluence and the crisis 7. Conclusion

About the author

Marzia Maccaferri is Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths College, the University of London, UK

Summary

Analyses of post-World War Two Western Europe have mostly adopted an international perspective whose main argument, in comparison with the failures of the interwar years, focused on the links between economic growth and democratic stabilization, highlighting the acceleration of modernization, the enormous improvement in living standards, and above all the rising post-war consumerism.
This book explores the question of affluence in Europe from the early 1950s, when the years of reconstruction and austerity gave way to optimism and economic growth, up to the crisis of the late 1970s, when the European economic and political miracle was in profound crisis

Product details

• Authors: MACCAFERRI, Marzia Maccaferri, Marzia (Goldsmiths College Maccaferri
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.04.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781138060470
• ISBN: 978-1-138-06047-0
• Series: The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series; The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology