The Violence of Austerity - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745337465 ISBN 13 : 9780745337463

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 police attacks on the homeless, violent evictions in the rented sector, the risks faced by people on workfare schemes, community violence in Northern Ireland and cuts to the regulation of social protection, are all being driven by reductions in public sector funding. The result is a shocking expose of the myriad ways in which austerity policies harm people in Britain.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745337465
• ISBN 13: 9780745337463
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Cooper Vickie, Whyte David
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne