Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity

• Main Author: Gedalof, Irene (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
• Subjects: Social policy.; Sociology.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Discourse analysis.; Public policy.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Policy.; Gender Studies.; British Politics.; Discourse Analysis.; Public Policy.; Migration.

This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and political discourses, exposing the political consequences for women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have critiqued the ways in which austerity has capt...