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Looking at how austerity has become embedded in institutional practices, this book offers new critical insights into the uneven geographies created by austerity.
Reflecting on the spatially and socially uneven impacts of austerity on individuals and families, Julie MacLeavy shows how the ‘new normal’ of post-welfare state governance will negatively condition life chances, even in better economic times. She considers the political, economic and social developments that have led us to the present moment and shows how the rhetoric of austerity has pushed social inequality and uneven development off the political agenda.
“Julie MacLeavy’s powerful and revelatory book shows that austerity was more than a cyclical episode, more even than an extended crisis, but a destructive and ongoing process of social and state transformation. It’s an incisive and important contribution.” Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia
1. The Historical Roots of Austerity
2. The Austere State
3. The Spatial Dimensions of Austerity
4. Living and Working Under Austerity
5. Austerity, Social Mobility and Life Course Development
6. Ending or Never-Ending Austerity?