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Austerities and Aspirations

Author : Béla Tomka
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 963386352X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Austerities and Aspirations written by Béla Tomka and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides an analysis of the economic performance and living standard in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, Hungary, and Poland since 1945. The novelty of the book lies in its broad comparative perspective: it places East Central Europe in a wider European framework that underlines the themes of regional disparities and European commonalities. Going beyond the traditional growth paradigm, the author systematically studies the historical patterns of consumption, leisure, and quality of life—aspects that Tomka argues can best be considered in relation to one other. By adopting this “triple approach,” he undertakes a truly interdisciplinary research drawing from history, economics, sociology, and demography. As a result of Tomka’s three-pillar comparative analysis, the book makes a major contribution to the debates on the dynamics of economic growth in communist and postcommunist East Central Europe, on the socialist consumer culture along with its transformation after 1990, and on how the accounts on East Central Europe can be integrated into the emerging field of historical quality of life research.

Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth

Author : Heather Mendick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474294227
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth written by Heather Mendick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth uses the lens of celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'. Drawing on original data, the authors examine what it means for young people to be forming their aspirations within the context of 'austere meritocracy'. The book addresses three central questions: What kinds of futures do young people desire and imagine for themselves? What is required of young people in the process of achieving these futures? And how are inequalities embedded and reproduced within these? Using young people's 'celebrity talk' to explore their aspirations, the authors challenge stereotypes of young people as a fame-hungry, get-rich-quick generation. Instead, they show how young people engage critically with celebrity and its discourses. Key chapters focus on how young people talk about youth, work, authenticity, success, happiness, money and fame in relation to their own lives and those of celebrities. Each of these chapters contains a case study of an international celebrity, including, Beyoncé, Will Smith, Bill Gates, Prince Harry and Kim Kardashian. The authors conclude with possibilities for social change. They show that celebrity offers an important way of working with young people to critically explore what futures are possible and for whom.

Thoughts and Aspirations of the Ages

Author : William Chatterton Coupland
Publisher : London: Swan Sonnenschein / New York: Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoughts and Aspirations of the Ages written by William Chatterton Coupland and published by London: Swan Sonnenschein / New York: Macmillan. This book was released on 1895 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dressing for Austerity

Author : Geraldine Biddle-Perry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786731975
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Dressing for Austerity by : Geraldine Biddle-Perry

Download or read book Dressing for Austerity written by Geraldine Biddle-Perry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look for Austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification 'Austerity Britain' in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour government's philosophy of 'Austerity by design' in a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and consumer agency. The book examines the immediate post-war period - its politics, its fashions and its people - in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.

Class Inequality in Austerity Britain

Author : W. Atkinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137016388
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Class Inequality in Austerity Britain written by W. Atkinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind the policy programme pursued and their damaging effects on class inequalities. Situated within a recognition of the longer-term rise of neoliberal politics, reflections on the status of sociology as a source of critique and current debates over the relationship between the cultural and economic dimensions of social class, the contributors cover an impressively wide range of relevant topics, from education, family policy and community to crime and consumption, shedding new light on the experience of domination in the early 21st Century.

From Austerity to Abundance?

Author : Margaret Stout
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787144658
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book From Austerity to Abundance? written by Margaret Stout and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the ways in which civil society and governments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinating efforts toward the common good. Increasingly, these collaborative endeavors seek to share power and break down role boundaries in the pursuit of abundant human flourishing, as opposed to cost-saving austerity.

Austerity Across Europe

Author : Sarah Marie Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429576900
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Austerity Across Europe written by Sarah Marie Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during times of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which austerity policies are lived and experienced - often alongside other significant social, political and personal change. With attention to the inequalities produced by these processes and the measures used by individuals, families and communities to help them ‘get by’, it also envisages hopeful, affirmative socio-political futures. Arranged around the themes of intergenerational relations and exchanges, ways of coping through crises, and community, civic and state infrastructures, Austerity Across Europe will appeal to social scientists with interests in everyday life, family practices, neoliberal state policy, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.

Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity

Author : Irene Gedalof
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113740065X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity by : Irene Gedalof

Download or read book Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity written by Irene Gedalof and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and political discourses, exposing the political consequences for women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have critiqued the ways in which austerity has captured the contemporary political narrative, this is the first book to systematically examine how these narratives work to shift the terms within which policy debates about inequality and difference play out. Gedalof’s exceptional readings of these texts pay close attention to the formal qualities of these narratives: the chronologies they impose, their articulation of crisis and resolution, the points of view they construct and the affective registers they deploy. In this manner she argues persuasively that the differences of gender, race, ethnicity and disability have been stitched into the fabric of austerity as excesses that must be disavowed, as reproductive burdens that are too great for the austere state to bear. This innovative, intersectional analysis will appeal to students and scholars of social policy, gender studies, politics and public policy.

Austerity and the Remaking of European Education

Author : Anna Traianou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350028495
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Austerity and the Remaking of European Education written by Anna Traianou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austerity and the Remaking of European Education offers historically and empirically grounded accounts of national educational formations in Europe, at a specific time in their reshaping through encounters with global policy frameworks, and social and economic developments. The authors explore these issues in the context of different pressures that impact on European education systems - from the constraints established by the European Central Bank and the European Commission across Southern Europe, to the 2008 financial crisis and the increased migration. The book provides a rigorous theoretical approach to European and national policies, combined with detailed analyses of national educational contexts in England, France, Greece, Hungary and Sweden. These in-depth studies identify major issues of national education policymaking, and explore the complexities of global/national relationships. The economic crisis, the rise of the Left in Greece and of the populist Right in many countries in Europe, questions of cultural and religious diversity, tensions between marketization and inclusion are all brought into focus, offering findings that are of great interest to researchers of education policy, politics and sociology of education alike. In the final section of the book, the authors explore policy alternatives, as embodied in the activities of both governments and non-state actors, such as trade unions and social movements.

Austerity Across Europe

Author : Sarah Marie Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429574797
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Austerity Across Europe written by Sarah Marie Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during times of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which austerity policies are lived and experienced - often alongside other significant social, political and personal change. With attention to the inequalities produced by these processes and the measures used by individuals, families and communities to help them ‘get by’, it also envisages hopeful, affirmative socio-political futures. Arranged around the themes of intergenerational relations and exchanges, ways of coping through crises, and community, civic and state infrastructures, Austerity Across Europe will appeal to social scientists with interests in everyday life, family practices, neoliberal state policy, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.

Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth

Author : Heather Mendick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474294232
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth written by Heather Mendick and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth uses the lens of celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'. Drawing on original data, the authors examine what it means for young people to be forming their aspirations within the context of 'austere meritocracy'. The book addresses three central questions: What kinds of futures do young people desire and imagine for themselves? What is required of young people in the process of achieving these futures? And how are inequalities embedded and reproduced within these? Using young people's 'celebrity talk' to explore their aspirations, the authors challenge stereotypes of young people as a fame-hungry, get-rich-quick generation. Instead, they show how young people engage critically with celebrity and its discourses. Key chapters focus on how young people talk about youth, work, authenticity, success, happiness, money and fame in relation to their own lives and those of celebrities. Each of these chapters contains a case study of an international celebrity, including, Beyoncé, Will Smith, Bill Gates, Prince Harry and Kim Kardashian. The authors conclude with possibilities for social change. They show that celebrity offers an important way of working with young people to critically explore what futures are possible and for whom."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contesting Austerity

Author : Anuscheh Farahat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509942823
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Austerity written by Anuscheh Farahat and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the different forms of austerity, contestation and resistance, in order to understand how they relate to one another and the impact they have on the democratic quality of public debates, the trust in public institutions and the legitimacy of law. Contestation of austerity includes not only traditional activism strategies such as human rights litigation and direct democracy instruments, but also new forms of collective action and collaborative resistance. Most importantly, many of the new anti-austerity initiatives also aim to renovate existing modes of democratic decision-making on the European, national, regional and local levels. The book focuses on different types of contesting austerity measures and the interaction between institutional and civil society actors. It will enhance understanding of how the various actors frame not only their goal but also the underlying social conflict to contest austerity and through which means they try to achieve political and legal changes. With 16 chapters written by contributors from Spain, Germany, Greece, Portugal and the UK, the book approaches 3 crucial areas of austerity policies: cuts in payment and pensions, labour law reform, and old and new poverty. In each field, the contributors analyse the processes of decision-making and contestation from 3 perspectives: institutions, democratic theory and societal responses.

Sport Policy and Politics in an Era of Austerity

Author : Dan Parnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429615485
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Sport Policy and Politics in an Era of Austerity written by Dan Parnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society. The global financial crash and economic downturn was the catalyst for change and, against a backdrop of advice from experts adverse to Keynesian economics, the ideology of austerity grew and became the dominant thinking to steer economies out of recession. This comprehensive volume draws upon both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to provide a varied and contextually rich insight into sport, policy, and politics in an era of austerity. The authors cover a wide range of issues in a variety of organisational contexts and geographies, including sports participation across different socio-demographic groups; the impact of austerity on the provision of community sports; disability sport; public management of sport facilities; the performance of public sport facilities with respect to access, finance, utilisation, and customer satisfaction; the potential impact of austerity on sport for development; elite sport; and social inclusion and poverty. This book makes a significant contribution to the current academic debate, while raising important considerations for policymakers and managers. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.

The Language of Crisis

Author : Mimi Huang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261547
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Crisis written by Mimi Huang and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of crisis, how do people conceptualise and communicate their experiences through different forms and channels? How can original research in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and crisis studies advance our understanding of the ways in which we interact with and communicate about crisis events? In answering these questions, this volume examines the unique functions, features and applications of the metaphors and frames that emerge from and give shape to crisis-related discourses. The chapters in this volume present original concepts, approaches, authentic data and findings of crisis discourses in a wide range of organisational, political and personal contexts that affect a diverse body of language users and communities. This book will appeal to a broad readership in linguistics, sociological studies, cognitive sciences, crisis studies as well as language and communication researchers and practitioners.

Austerity as Public Mood

Author : Kirsten Forkert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783481951
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Austerity as Public Mood written by Kirsten Forkert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how UK politicians and the press mobilise support for ‘austerity’ through appealing to socially conservative conceptions of work and community. It examines the techniques of anti-austerity social movements in challenging the prevailing mood of guilt, nostalgia and resentment and how these may offer radical alternatives for social change.

The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity, 2010-2020

Author : Nasrul Ismail
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000784150
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity, 2010-2020 written by Nasrul Ismail and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society’s most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed world of English prisons to examine its impact on prison health governance and healthcare delivery. It argues that austerity has been a decade-long, large-scale political experiment that has caused debt to balloon, eroded the prison health system and perpetuated a cycle of punishment resulting in sicker prisoners. In short, austerity has violated prisoners’ human rights. Drawing on interviews and data from existing longitudinal and economic analyses, the book demonstrates how austerity has resulted in high rates of recidivism, diminished what remains of the welfare state, and increased inequality and punitiveness. Despite a decade of failure, there is a marked political reluctance to dispense with austerity, and the governmental juggernaut continues to produce the same result. As the spectre of recession increases, caused in part by Brexit and COVID-19, these failures are ever more perilous. This book blends the interdisciplinary perspectives of criminology, public health, sociology, law, social policy, politics, and economics to enable greater understanding of the impact of austerity on health governance, prison healthcare, the prison workforce, and prisoners’ health and safety. It challenges current policy, practice and thinking, and is a must read for anyone who wants to reflect on how the political economic structure can affect the governance and delivery of healthcare services in marginalised settings, beyond prisons, and indeed beyond England.

Sensual Austerity and Moral Leadership

Author : Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030891518
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Sensual Austerity and Moral Leadership written by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the link between sensual austerity and moral leadership—a topic largely neglected in contemporary academic scholarship and public policy—by exploring the comparative cross-cultural perspectives of Plato, Confucius, and Gandhi, on this theme. Despite the diverse cultural contexts that gave rise to their respective philosophical perspectives, they shared similar views on what might constitute a universal and perennial basis for individual moral development in any harmonious political order. They all agreed that sensual austerity is necessary for the realization of a flourishing society and political culture: recognizing that control over sensual desire is both a vehicle for individual moral self-cultivation and social-political progress. Sensual austerity is thus an essential aspect of any morally governed person, institution, state, or society. The book also argues that further examination of this theme may assist scholars and policymakers in developing more peaceful and harmonious national and global communities.