Alternatives to austerity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2247757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Bear (0000-0003-1718-8129, Science Navigation Group (United Kingdom), corresponding author), D M Knight (0000-0001-9197-983X, Lecturer in social anthropology and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of St Andrews, and Visiting Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of History, time, and economic crisis in Central Greece (Palgrave, 2015) and co‐editor of Èthnographies of austerity: Temporality, crisis and affect in southern Europe (Routledge, 2017)., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8322.12375 |
| OpenAlex | W2764015991 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 7 |
We are in the age of austerity. Across the globe, there have recently been calls from both the left and the right to rethink policies of austerity and to rein in the forces of globalization. Over the past two years, anti-austerity sentiment has been a major factor in public votes in Europe and the US. Anti-globalization, anti-debt and anti-PPP movements are gaining broad support. Claiming to speak for ordinary families hit by the effects of austerity, parties across the political spectrum are scrambling to improvise new policies. Some alternatives to austerity are simply old ideas repackaged or reappropriated and help to legitimize the current status quo, yet others seem to offer genuine respite from the established order, claiming new forms of social relations and redistribution. The authors argue that only through an analysis of the longer-term origins and multiple guises of austerity can we move towards proposals for social change. They challenge established understandings of austerity and ask readers to imagine seemingly utopian alternatives. Overall, they ask: how can we give a new critical meaning to the concept of the public good
Austerity · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The 'Arc of Prosperity' Revisited
Austerity and its alternatives in the European parliament
Bodies of and against austerity
Towards an anthropology of global inequalities and their local manifestations
Crises all around
Austerity, the state and common sense in Europe
Distributed agency
Political Economy Comes Home
A financial frontier for Catalonia
From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity
Anxiety, Ambivalence, and the Violence of Expectations
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |