Berry Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-15627-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Reihe: The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture

In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which spurned the period of ‘austerity economics’ across many nations. Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity examines how austerity impacts upon cultural politics in terms of understanding how established power is maintained – what Herbert Marcuse termed ‘affirmative culture’ – and resisted by popular/social movements. Elements of this book assess the media and the part it plays in the process of maintaining the status quo and contra-narratives particularly in drama.

The book begins by detailing the meaning of cultural politics before exploring themes such as media discourse and austerity narratives, class, resistance, cultural hegemony, policymaking, social movements and the European Union. There are also two chapters tracing cultural politics in Spain with a focus on anti-austerity movements and how austerity impacts upon football.

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity assesses the impact of a range of cultural forms on the dynamics of society and relations of power during times of economic crisis. As such, it will appeal to scholars of media, cultural studies and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors

Preface

DAVID BERRY

- Cultural Politics, Austerity and Responses

DAVID BERRY

- Unmasking the Golem: English Riots, Media

and the Social Psychology of Madness

GLEN PARKINSON

- Remembrance and the working class soldier hero in

Austerity Britain

MAGGIE ANDREWS

- ‘We have to keep going, whatever happens’: The Austerity Narratives

of Girls, Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey

SALLIE MCNAMARA

- Managing the Social Impacts of Austerity Britain: The Cultural Politics

of Neo-Liberal ‘nudging’

EMMA BRIANT & STEVEN HARKINS

- Class and cultural colonization in the era of austerity: The dialectics

of identity and de-subordination

MARK HAYES

- The European Union Project, Social Movements & Alienation

DAVID BERRY

- Cultural Politics Anti-Austerity Movements in Spain: Towards a

Comprehensive Strategy of Change

JOAN PEDRO

- The Sweet Smell of Success: Spanish Football as the antidote to

Austerity since 2008

JIM O’BRIEN

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

PHILIP BOUNDS

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Berry is Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at Southampton Solent University, UK, and author of The Romanian Mass Media and Cultural Development and Journalism, Ethics and Society. He is co-author of Public Policy and Media Organizations, co-editor of Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy and British Marxism and Cultural Studies: Essays on a living tradition, and editor of Ethics and Media Culture: Representations and Practices and Revisiting the Frankfurt School: Essays on Media, Culture and Theory.