1st Edition

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity

Edited By David Berry Copyright 2017
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Notes on contributors

    Preface

    DAVID BERRY

    1. Cultural Politics, Austerity and Responses
    2. DAVID BERRY

    3. Unmasking the Golem: English Riots, Media
    4. and the Social Psychology of Madness

      GLEN PARKINSON

    5. Remembrance and the working class soldier hero in
    6. Austerity Britain

      MAGGIE ANDREWS

    7. ‘We have to keep going, whatever happens’: The Austerity Narratives
    8. of Girls, Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey

      SALLIE MCNAMARA

    9. Managing the Social Impacts of Austerity Britain: The Cultural Politics
    10. of Neo-Liberal ‘nudging’

      EMMA BRIANT & STEVEN HARKINS

    11. Class and cultural colonization in the era of austerity: The dialectics
    12. of identity and de-subordination

      MARK HAYES

    13. The European Union Project, Social Movements & Alienation
    14. DAVID BERRY

    15. Cultural Politics Anti-Austerity Movements in Spain: Towards a
    16. Comprehensive Strategy of Change

      JOAN PEDRO

    17. The Sweet Smell of Success: Spanish Football as the antidote to
    18. Austerity since 2008

      JIM O’BRIEN

    19. Sectarians on Wigan Pier: The British Left in an Age of Austerity

    PHILIP BOUNDS

    Index

    Biography

    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.