Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity / Edition 1

by David Berry

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472434883
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/06/2017
Series:	The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors

Preface by David Berry

1. Cultural politics, austerity and responses
   David Berry
   
2. Unmasking the golem: English riots, media and the social psychology of madness
   Glen Parkinson
   
3. Remembrance and the working class soldier hero in austerity Britain
   Maggie Andrews
4. ‘We have to keep going, whatever happens’: the austerity narratives of Girls, Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey
   Sallie McNamara
   
5. Managing the social impacts of austerity Britain: the cultural politics of neo-liberal ‘nudging’
   Emma L. Briant and Steven Harkins
   
6. Class and cultural colonization in the era of austerity: the dialectics of identity and de-subordination
   Mark Hayes
   
7. The European Union project, social movements and alienation
   David Berry
8. Cultural politics anti-austerity movements in Spain: towards a comprehensive strategy of change
   Joan Pedro
9. The sweet smell of success: Spanish football as the antidote to austerity since 2008
   Jim O'Brien
10. Orwell's progeny: the British left in an age of austerity
    Philip Bounds

Index