Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity

David Berry is Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at Southampton Solent University, UK, and the author of The Romanian Mass Media and Cultural Development and Journalism, Ethics and Society. He is the co-author of Public Policy and Media Organizations, the co-editor of Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy and British Marxism and Cultural Studies: Essays on a living tradition, and the editor of Ethics and Media Culture: Representations and Practices and Revisiting the Frankfurt School: Essays on Media, Culture and Theory.

Notes on contributors

Preface by David Berry






Cultural politics, austerity and responsesDavid Berry

Unmasking the golem: English riots, media and the social psychology of madnessGlen Parkinson

Remembrance and the working class soldier hero in austerity BritainMaggie Andrews



‘We have to keep going, whatever happens’: the austerity narratives of Girls, Breaking Bad and Downton AbbeySallie McNamara

Managing the social impacts of austerity Britain: the cultural politics of neo-liberal ‘nudging’Emma L. Briant and Steven Harkins

Class and cultural colonization in the era of austerity: the dialectics of identity and de-subordinationMark Hayes

The European Union project, social movements and alienationDavid Berry



Cultural politics anti-austerity movements in Spain: towards a comprehensive strategy of changeJoan Pedro



The sweet smell of success: Spanish football as the antidote to austerity since 2008Jim O'Brien



Orwell's progeny: the British left in an age of austerityPhilip Bounds

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