Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life
Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations
Authors: Bhattacharyya, Gargi
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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).
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Is it Too Late to Write a Book about Austerity?
Pages 1-39
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The Primacy of the Economic and the Degradation of Politics
Pages 41-73
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The Institutionalisation of Despair and Diminishing Expectations
Pages 75-110
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Austerity and Extending the Racial State
Pages 111-147
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Reproductive Labour in Austere Times
Pages 149-188
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life
- Book Subtitle
- Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations
- Authors
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- Gargi Bhattacharyya
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Gargi Bhattacharyya
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-41112-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137411129
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-41111-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 228
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