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

Author:   Gargi Bhattacharyya
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
ISBN:  

9781137411112


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   29 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life: Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations


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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.

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Author:   Gargi Bhattacharyya
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.041kg
ISBN:  

9781137411112


ISBN 10:   1137411112
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   29 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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?

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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).

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