1 option
Living against austerity : a feminist investigation of doing activism and being activist / Emma Craddock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Craddock, Emma, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women political activists.
- Women--Political activity.
- Women.
- Women--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Feminism--Political aspects.
- Feminism.
- Women--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- x, 214 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA : Bristol University Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. An Introduction to Local Anti-Austerity Activist Culture
- Where it all began: the financial crisis and austerity
- The affective dimension of political engagement
- Social movements and emotions
- Gender and social movement activism
- The research project: a feminist approach
- Research aims
- Research methods
- Chapter outline
- pt. I Establishing Context
- 2. A Critical Review of Social Movement Theory: Gender and Emotion in Activist Cultures
- Social movement theory: old versus new movements
- Networked social movements
- Activist cultures
- Gender and the public sphere
- Gender and activism
- 3. The Empirical and Political Context of Anti-Austerity Activism
- Neoliberalism: a brief history
- Neoliberal capitalism
- Austerity's dominant narratives
- `We're all in it together?'
- The research project
- Participant demographics
- The local context: Nottingham living against austerity
- UK Uncut
- The People's Assembly
- Working within or outside the system: hierarchical versus horizontal movements
- UK Uncut: a `new' politics?
- `New' activist politics versus `old' party politics
- pt. II Doing Activism: Enabling and Constraining Factors
- 4. The Affective, the Normative and the Everyday: Exploring What Motivates and Sustains Anti-Austerity Activism
- The affective and normative as motivations for activism
- Empathy: the moral emotion that motivates and sustains activism
- Making a (small) difference and the everyday
- Activism as (individual) responsibility to the collective
- `Activist' and/or `non-activist'?
- The personal as motivation
- The sustaining force of the social and affective dimensions of activism
- 5. Barriers to Doing Activism
- (Not) checking your privilege
- Who can do activism?
- Costs of activism
- Activism as a luxury?
- Gendered barriers and exclusions to doing activism
- Overcoming gendered barriers: women-only activism
- pt. III Being Activist: The Activist Identity and Its Problems
- 6. The Authentic and Ideal Activist Identities: Having the `Right' Motivation and Doing `Enough' of the `Right' Type of Activism
- The shared meanings of `activist' in activist culture
- Who should do activism/be activist?
- Issues of representation
- The `ideal activist' identity: doing `enough' of the `right' type of activism
- The `real' and the `virtual': online versus offline activism
- 7. The Dark Side of Activist Culture and its Gendered Dimension
- Constructing the activist identity: outside as well as in
- Being policed by others: activist shaming
- The gendered dimension of the `ideal activist' identity and its negative impacts
- Women's guilt?
- Doing enough or doing too much? The negative effects of activism and activist burnout
- pt. IV Concluding Remarks
- 8. Subverting/Reinforcing Neoliberal Capitalism: The Complex Ambivalence of Anti-Austerity Activism
- Future directions for research.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1529205700
- 9781529205701
- OCLC:
- 1110441966
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.