The Violence of Austerity
Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain. In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O'Hara and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of the social systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship, exposing austerity to be a form of systematic violence. Covering a range of famous cases of institutional violence in Britain, the book argues that po…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Whyte, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7453-3746-3
- EAN: 9780745337463
- Produktnummer: 24033632
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.8 cm 479 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 479
Über den Autor
Vickie Cooper is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University where she is Co-Director of HERC (Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative) and researches issues related to homelessness, criminal justice system, housing and eviction. She is the co-editor of The Violence of Austerity (Pluto, 2017).
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