Living Against Austerity : : A Feminist Investigation of Doing Activism and Being Activist /

Living Against Austerity : : A Feminist Investigation of Doing Activism and Being Activist / / Emma Craddock.

With austerity’s disproportionately heavy impact on women now apparent, this engaging book considers activism against it from a feminist perspective. Emma Craddock goes deep inside activist culture to explore the many cultural and emotional dimensions of political participation. She questions what m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Craddock, Emma,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • An Introduction to Local Anti-Austerity Activist Culture
  • Establishing Context
  • A Critical Review of Social Movement Theory: Gender and Emotion in Activist Cultures
  • The Empirical and Political Context of Anti-Austerity Activism
  • Doing Activism: Enabling and Constraining Factors
  • The Affective, the Normative and the Everyday: Exploring What Motivates and Sustains Anti-Austerity Activism
  • Barriers to Doing Activism
  • Being Activist: The Activist Identity and its Problems
  • The Authentic and Ideal Activist Identities: Having the ‘Right’ Motivation and Doing ‘Enough’ of the ‘Right’ Type of Activism
  • The Dark Side of Activist Culture and its Gendered Dimension
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Subverting/Reinforcing Neoliberal Capitalism: The Complex Ambivalence of Anti-Austerity Activism
  • References
  • Index

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