From Out of Apathy to the post-political

The spatial politics of austerity, the geographies of politicisation and the trajectories of the Scottish left(s)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5767262
AutoresDavid Featherstone (0000-0001-5196-2486, University of Glasgow, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen39
Número3
Páginas469-490
Fecha de publicación2019-12-11
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning C Politics and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2399-6544 • E-ISSN: 2399-6552
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2399654419885706
OpenAlexW2983559978
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas34

This paper offers an alternative approach to some of the temporalising logics and imaginaries which have dominated debates around the post-political and post-democracy. It does this through engaging with the writings of figures associated with the 'First New Left' notably Stuart Hall and E.P. Thompson between 1956 and 1962. I argue that their essays in texts such as Out of Apathy bear some striking similarities with the claims of literatures relating to post-politics and post-democracy. Their work I argue repays substantive engagement; however, because through its attentiveness to emergent practices and geographies of antagonism, it offers a more generative and politically strategic resolution to some of the common discontents of consensus and marketisation of politics that has characterised work on post-politics. The paper develops these arguments through a discussion of how the uneven geographies of politicisation and trajectories of the Scottish left(s) in different parts of the post-war period have shaped and impacted on the spatial politics of austerity in significant ways

Austerity · New Left · Irish and British Studies · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Scottish History and National Identity