Alternatives to austerity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2247757
AutoresL Bear (0000-0003-1718-8129, Science Navigation Group (United Kingdom), autor de correspondencia), 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)., autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen33
Número5
Páginas1-2
Fecha de publicación2017-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropology Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8322.12375
OpenAlexW2764015991
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas7

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