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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"austerity"”.
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Austerity as enclosure: how austerity in Ireland after the global financial crisis acts as a method of inclusion and exclusion
<p>This thesis argues that the austerity policies in Ireland after the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis acted as a form of second enclosure and increased economic inequality. This thesis uses a Marxian critique of neoliberal market society to analyze the policies enacted after the 2010 Irish …
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The Poverty of Simplicity: Austerity, Alienation, and Tiny Houses
… it leaves the root causes of alienation, austerity, and abstract domination – the capitalist mode of production itself – unchallenged. The tiny house movement is thus ultimately more interesting in how it reproduces neoliberal ideology than its desire or capacity to combat it – and how …
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Compliance with IMF austerity: labor rights, protest, and repression
… It argues that when governments implement austerity reforms attached to IMF loans it increases human rights violations and violence in borrower governments. A new measure of IMF compliance is developed and used to explore the consequences of IMF lending in the 21st century. Past research …
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Spring in Summer: Strikes, Austerity and Solidarity in Poland (July – August 1980)
ABSTRACT This thesis provides a new account of the strikes in Poland between July and August 1980 that led to the formation of Solidarność (Solidarity), the first ‘independent, self-governing trade union’ to exist under Communism. Although primarily focussed on the role of civil resistance in …
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The Camouflaging of Austerity: Institutional geographies of mental health in contemporary England
… service provision which have emerged under austerity, and the institutional geographies which work to reproduce these. While austerity is sometimes portrayed as a relatively uniform process of retrenchment, I begin by offering a forensic cultural geography of austerity, a granular survey of …
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Micropolitics and Southern European socially engaged art practices in the age of austerity
This thesis develops a genealogy of the concept of micropolitics as a militant and analytical tool through the lens of which it examines the institutional dimension of socially engaged art practices in Southern Europe between 2008 and 2015. The period under examination was marked by the emergence …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
<p>This dissertation tracks the remarkable growth of food assistance in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become …
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Expansion despite permanent austerity? Innovative aspects of social policy in Liberal welfare regimes
This thesis seeks to challenge the entrenched academic consensus that there are no opportunities for welfare state expansion in liberal welfare regimes in the face of neo-liberal economic ideology and new public management reforms to decision-making. It does so though an examination of social …
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“How much are our lives worth?” Water, reproduction, and geographies of American austerity
Austerity policies have been a dominant governance strategy in America’s rustbelt cities since the 2008 financial crisis. These policies call for balanced budgets, reduced expenditures, and deepened dismantling of public resources (e.g., shuttering of social service programs, selling-off of public …
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“Canada in One City”: Austerity Urbanism and the Financialization of Ottawa's Private Rental Sector
… historical development across the inter-scalar austerity urbanist planning regime.
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Waiting, Caring, Navigating: An Ethnographic Study of Women's Everyday Lives within and beyond Austerity
… can be little doubt that the United Kingdom’s austerity programme – relentlessly pursued by successive Conservative-led governments – has had profound socio-economic impacts on the country and its inhabitants. While initial analyses and academics engagements were primarily quantitative in …
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Explorations of mental health professionals' views on hope and austerity : the synergy of a paradox?
… hope. The research paper aimed to explore how austerity impacted on the work of psychological therapists. Thematic analysis of qualitative data yielded from 12 semistructured interviews led to the development of six related themes: 1) “There's a general atmosphere of threat”; 2) “You’re …
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Trade union influence under austerity in Europe (2018-2016), a study of Greece, Ireland and Belgium.
My PhD thesis concerns trade union responses to austerity in Belgium, Greece and Ireland (2008-2016). It explores the power resources trade unions in Europe have drawn on during these crisis years, and seeks to establish if unions are cultivating new sources of power and influence, as traditional …
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HOW DO URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS EMERGE AND BRING ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE: IS FOCUS E15 A REACTION TO AUSTERITY?
This research offers an insight into how a small group of people from diverse backgrounds came together as the Focus E15 campaign and use street activism and occupying space to challenge the policies of Newham Council. This group on first appearance can be seen to relate to the academic work of …
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Contesting Austerity: A Comparative Approach to the Cycles of Protest in Portugal and Spain under the Great Recession
… compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain in the context of the Eurozone crisis and the Great Recession between 2008 and 2015. Despite many similarities in the origins and socio-economic effects of the crisis, the dynamics of contention in each country …
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Spaces of difference, spaces of possibility? : An exploration of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) in the austerity foodscape of the United Kingdom
… of ‘civil society’ in the enduring period of austerity following the 2007-8 global financial crisis. Drawing on a qualitative research study in Lancashire, I show how the conceptual ‘austerity foodscape’ of the United Kingdom that has developed following the financial crisis plays host to …
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The paradox of English sport development policy and practice: Examining the mass participation agenda during an era of austerity and continued change.
… of the delivery platform provision under austerity, challenge the industry assumptions of pathways of progression and question existing behaviour change assumptions. Further future explanatory themes that emerged from the meta-ethnography included divergence and widening in sport …
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On the Local Economic and Political Consequences of Controversial Policies
… such as the implementation of severe austerity measures throughout the continent, and growing nationalistic tendencies in many countries, perhaps best represented by the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. That said, despite the magnitude of such developments, their …
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Mapping austerity-based 'Crisis Law' before the European Court of Human Rights: an exploration of the impact of the court's interpretive ethic upon its derived legitimacy
… Court of Human Rights to ‘Crisis Law’ or austerity-based case-law. In tracking the development of this Crisis Law, a full analysis of how the Court has responded to such claims of austerity-based rights infringements will be explored. This mapping of Crisis Law reveals a number of …
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